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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Satire III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which of the following cities had Juvenal's friend, Umbricius recently moved?
(a) Superbus.
(b) Magna.
(c) Sibyl.
(d) Cumae.

2. How were the poor within Roman society treated?
(a) They are pitied.
(b) They are heralded.
(c) They are mocked.
(d) They are ignored.

3. Which of the following groups of people did Juvenal prefer?
(a) Eunichs.
(b) Cross dressers.
(c) Homosexuals.
(d) Adulturers.

4. Which of the following bird types did Juvenal claim to give birth by mouth?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Vulture.
(c) Robin.
(d) Raven.

5. According to Juvenal, which of the following will inherit the longings and vices of the world?
(a) Posterity.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Proletariats.
(d) Punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following texts did Juvenal frequently refer to in his discussions with Umbricius?

2. Which of the following characters poisons for a living?

3. Which of the following rites did Juvenal mock, claiming them to lack a relation to women?

4. In the text, which of the following substances makes up the statue of Apollo?

5. What does the narrator claim is being recycled in bad play-writing?

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