Early Latin Literature CSK Week One - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
How many books did Cato's Origines contain?	7	100%
How many books did Naevius' Bellum Punic contain?	7	100%
What meter did Lucilius establish as the meter of Roman satire?	Dactylic Hexameter	100%
What genre was Lucilius the first to focus exclusively on?	satire	100%
What was the purpose of Livius Andronicus' Odussia?	textbook	100%
In what year did Lucilius die?	102 BC	0%
In what year did Pacuvius die?	130 BC	0%
In what year did Cato the Elder die?	149 BC	0%
In what year did Terence die?	159 BC	0%
In what year did Terence make his theatrical debut?	166 BC	0%
In what year did Quintus Ennius die?	169 BC	0%
How many books did Ennius' Annales contain?	18	0%
In what year was Lucilius born?	180 BC	0%
In what year did Plautus die?	184 BC	0%
In what year did Gnaeus Naevius die in exile at Utica?	201 BC	0%
In what year did Livius Andronicus die?	204 BC	0%
In what year did Livius Andronicus compose a parthenion in honor of Juno?	207 BC	0%
In what year was Pacuvius born in Brundisium?	220 BC	0%
In what year was Cato the Elder born at Tusculum?	234 BC	0%
In what year was Gnaeus Naevius born near Capua?	270 BC	0%
In what year did Livius Andronicus come to Rome as a slave?	272 BC	0%
In what year was Livius Andronicus born at Tarentum?	284 BC	0%
How many books of Satires made up Lucilius' Sermones?	30	0%
Which play of Terence is a comedy about twins, one born in the country and one born in the city?	Adelphi	0%
Which Broadway play is based on a compilation of Plautus' plays?	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum	0%
Who acted in all of Terence's plays?	Ambivius Turpio	0%
Which play of Plautus deals with the confusion over Hercules' birth?	Amphitruo	0%
Which play of Plautus is the only one with a mythological subject?	Amphitruo	0%
Which play of Terence was his earliest work?	Andria	0%
In the prologue of which of Terence's plays does he defend his use of contaminatio?	Andria	0%
Which work of Quintus Ennius is an 18-book epic poem on Roman history?	Annales	0%
In what city were all of Terence's plays set?	Athens	0%
Which play of Plautus deals with the misfortunes of a miser named Euclio who tries to hide his fortune?	Aulularia	0%
In Plautus' Pseudolus, what pimp is swindled out of one of his girls?	Ballio	0%
What was the title of Naevius' epic on the First Punic War?	Bellum Punicum	0%
Which work of Gnaeus Naevius is an epic poem about the First Punic War, written in Saturnian verse?	Bellum Punicum	0%
Where was Pacuvius in 220 BC?	Brundisium	0%
What Latin term did Livius Andronicus use to translate "Muse"?	Camena	0%
Which play of Plautus has no female characters?	Captivi	0%
Which play of Plautus deals with the efforts of a well-to-do father to ransom his son who has been taken prisoner of war?	Captivi	0%
Which play of Plautus mentions the imprisonment of Naevius?	Captivi	0%
Where was Terence born in 195 or 185 BC?	Carthage	0%
What author, known for his old-fashioned and puritanical style, was called the "father of Latin prose"?	Cato the Elder	0%
What author was born in 234 BC at Tusculum?	Cato the Elder	0%
What author was called the "Father of Latin Prose"?	Cato the Elder	0%
Who brought Quintus Ennius to Rome?	Cato the Elder	0%
What author brought Quintius Ennius to Rome?	Cato the Elder	0%
Who was the first to write history in Latin?	Cato the Elder	0%
What political office did Cato the Elder hold in 184 BC?	censor	0%
What author regarded Livius Andronicus' work as antiquated and not worth reading?	Cicero	0%
Who considered Pacuvius the greatest of Latin tragic poets?	Cicero	0%
What are the titles of Naevius' two fabulae praetextae?	Clastidium & Romulus	0%
What is contaminatio?	combination of elements of multiple Greek plays into on Latin play	0%
Which play of Plautus deals with a parasit of a young man who is in love with a courtesan?	Curculio	0%
Which play of Plautus was his shortest?	Curculio	0%
Which work of Cato the Elder was the earliest Latin prose work to come down to us in its entirety?	De Agri Cultura	0%
Which work of Cato the Elder was a treatise on farming?	De Agri Cultura	0%
What is the alternate title of Cato's De Agri Cultura?	De Re Rustica	0%
Which work of Pacuvius depicts Orestes driven mad by the Furies?	Dulorestes	0%
In Plautus' Aulularia, what miser tries to hide his fortune?	Euclio	0%
Which play of Terence was his biggest commercial success?	Eunuchus	0%
What honorific title was given to Livius Andronicus?	Father of Latin Literature	0%
What is Lucilius' full name?	Gaius Lucilius	0%
Who wrote a fabula praetexta entitled Clastidium?	Gnaeus Naevius	0%
Which author remarked "Fato Metelli fiunt Romae consules"?	Gnaeus Naevius	0%
What author pioneered "fabulae praetextae", tragedies written on Roman historical material?	Gnaeus Naevius	0%
Who wrote the Bellum Punicum, the first epic on an Italian subject?	Gnaeus Naevius	0%
Who wrote a fabula praetexta entitled Romulus?	Gnaeus Naevius	0%
Which author was exiled to Utica because of his fued with the Metelli family?	Gnaeus Naevius	0%
Whose Bellum Punicum details the events from Aeneas' arrival in Latium down to the First Punic War?	Gnaeus Naevius	0%
Which author died at Utica in 201 BC?	Gnaeus Naevius	0%
What dramatist was the first native Italian to write Latin literature?	Gnaeus Naevius	0%
Who was the first to write an epic on an entirely Italian subject?	Gnaeus Naevius	0%
What author was born in 270 BC at Capua?	Gnaeus Naevius	0%
What three languages made up Ennius' three hearts?	Greek, Oscan, Latin	0%
Which play of Terence deals with Clinia who is about to be separated from his wife?	Heauton Timorumenos	0%
In which play of Terence does the title character remark "homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto"?	Heauton Timorumenos	0%
Which play of Terence did the audience leave in preference for a show of tightrope walkers during the first and second attempts?	Hecyra	0%
Which play of Terence was only produced after two failed attempts?	Hecyra	0%
What author called Lucilius his lantern for his influence in Satire?	Horace	0%
Translate Naevius' remark "fato Metelli fiunt Romae consules".	It's fate that makes the Metelli consules at Rome	0%
What grammarian arranged Naevius' Bellum Punicum into 7 Books?	Lampadio	0%
What author came to Rome as a slave in 272 BC?	Livius Andronicus	0%
Who wrote the first Roman comedy and Roman tragedy for the Ludi Romani of 240 BC?	Livius Andronicus	0%
Who wrote the first Latin translation of Homer's Odyssey?	Livius Andronicus	0%
What author was the first to produce plays in Rome?	Livius Andronicus	0%
What author was called the "Father of Latin Literature"?	Livius Andronicus	0%
What author composed a parthenion in honor of Juno in 207 BC?	Livius Andronicus	0%
What author was born in 284 B.C. at Tarentum?	Livius Andronicus	0%
For whose children did Livius Andronicus compose the Odussia as a textbook?	Livius Salinator	0%
What author did Horace call his lantern for his influence in Satire?	Lucilius	0%
Whose satires on a trip to Brundisium and an ancounter with a bore were models for Horace?	Lucilius	0%
Who wrote a 30 book collection of Satires called Sermones?	Lucilius	0%
What author established hexameter as the meter of Roman satire?	Lucilius	0%
Who was the first Latin write to focus exclusively on Satire?	Lucilius	0%
What author was the great-uncle of Pompey the Great?	Lucilius	0%
What author was born in 180 BC at Suessa Aurunca?	Lucilius	0%
What is Livius Andronicus' full name?	Lucius Livius Andronicus	0%
For what event in 240 BC did Livius Andronicus compose the first Roman comedy and tragedy?	Ludi Romani	0%
What is the alternate title of Lucilius' Sermones?	Ludus ac Sermones	0%
What was Pacuvius' full name?	Marcus Pacuvius	0%
What is Cato the Elder's full name?	Marcus Porcius Cato	0%
Which play of Plautus deals with twins seperated at birth?	Menaechmi	0%
Which play of Plautus is the primary model for Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors?	Menaechmi	0%
With what family did Gnaeus Naevius have a fued which got him exiled to Utica?	Metelli	0%
Which play of Plautus deals with a clever slave who manages to steal away from the boastful soldier Pyrgopolyneices the girl loved by his young master?	Miles Gloriosus	0%
Which play of Plautus was his longest?	Miles Gloriosus	0%
Which play of Plautus deals with the slave Tranio who convinces his master's father that his house is haunted?	Mostellaria	0%
What style of Greek comedy did Plautus and Terence employ?	New Comedy	0%
Which work of Pacuvius depicts Ulysses' death at the hands of Telegonus?	Niptra	0%
What was the earliest extant work of Latin literature?	Odussia	0%
Which work of Livius Andronicus is a Latin translation of Homer's Odyssey?	Odussia	0%
What is the translation of Dulorestes?	Orestes the Slave	0%
Which work of Cato the Elder begins with a line of hexameter?	Origines	0%
Which work of Cato the Elder was a 7-book history of Rome?	Origines	0%
Which work of Cato the Elder was the first prose historical text in Latin?	Origines	0%
Who wrote the tragedies Dulorestes and Niptra?	Pacuvius	0%
What nephew of Ennius was a famous tragedian?	Pacuvius	0%
What author did Cicero consider the "greatest of Latin tragic poets"?	Pacuvius	0%
What type of poem did Livius Andronicus compose in honor of Juno in 207 BC?	parthenion	0%
Which author was born at Sarsina c. 254 BC?	Plautus	0%
The Broadway play "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is based on a compilation of which author's plays?	Plautus	0%
Varro said that if the Muses had spoken Latin they would have spoken the type that appeared in which author's plays?	Plautus	0%
What comic playwright was born at Sarsina c. 254 BC?	Plautus	0%
Which play of Plautus deals with a clever slave who tricks the pimp Ballio out of a girl his young master loves?	Pseudolus	0%
What was Terence's full name?	Publius Terentius Afer	0%
In Plautus' Miles Gloriosus, what boastful soldier is swindled out of his girl?	Pyrgopolyneices	0%
What author first adapted dactylic hexameter from Greek poetry into Latin?	Quintus Ennius	0%
What author wrote an 18-book epic on Roman history entitled Annales?	Quintus Ennius	0%
What author made dactylic hexameter the official meter of Latin epic poetry?	Quintus Ennius	0%
Who was the first Latin writer to compose Satire?	Quintus Ennius	0%
What poet claimed that he had three hearts because he spoke Latin, Greek, and Oscan?	Quintus Ennius	0%
What poet was the famous uncle of Pacuvius?	Quintus Ennius	0%
What author was born in 239 BC at Rudiae in Calabria?	Quintus Ennius	0%
Where was Quintus Ennius born in 239 BC?	Rudiae (in Calabria)	0%
Where was Plautus born c. 254 BC?	Sarsina	0%
In what early Italian meter was the Odussia written?	Saturnian	0%
Who was the literary patron of Terence?	Scipio Aemilianus	0%
What was the title of Lucilius' collection of Satires?	Sermones	0%
Where was Lucilius born in 180 BC?	Suessa Aurunca	0%
Where was Livius Andronicus born in 284 B.C.?	Tarentum	0%
What comic playwright was born in Carthage in 195 BC?	Terence	0%
What author was born ca. 195 BC in Carthage?	Terence	0%
What comic playwright was brought to Rome from Carthage as a slave?	Terence	0%
What is the translation of Niptra?	The Bath	0%
What is the translation of "Miles Gloriosus"?	The Braggart Soldier	0%
What is the translation of "Adelphi"?	The Brothers	0%
What is the translation of "Mostellaria"?	The Haunted House	0%
What is the translation of "Hecyra"?	The Mother-in-Law	0%
What is the translation of "Aulularia"?	The Pot of Gold	0%
What is the translation of "Heauton Timorumenos"?	The Self-Tormentor	0%
What is the translation of "Andria"?	The Woman of Andros	0%
What was Plautus' full name?	Titus Maccius Plautus	0%
What are fabulae praetextae?	tragedies written on Roman historical material	0%
In Plautus' Mostellaria, what clever slave convinces his master's father that his house is haunted?	Tranio	0%
Where was Cato the Elder born in 234 BC?	Tusculum	0%
Where did Gnaeus Naevius die in exile in 201 BC?	Utica	0%
To what African city was Naevius exiled because of his fued with the Metelli family?	Utica	0%

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