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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Juvenal think that a temple should be built to honor?
(a) Art.
(b) Reverence.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Money.

2. Which of the following crimes was Emperor Otho accused of committing?
(a) Lust.
(b) Murder.
(c) Greed.
(d) Vanity.

3. Which of the following genres does Juvenal write in?
(a) Novels.
(b) Poems.
(c) Essays.
(d) Plays.

4. Which of the following rites did Juvenal mock, claiming them to lack a relation to women?
(a) Marriage rites.
(b) Justice rites.
(c) Athletic rites.
(d) Fertility rites.

5. Who is known as the Goddess of Fertility?
(a) Ceres.
(b) Diana.
(c) Hebe.
(d) Nike.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Juvenal claim propelled him to write and share his creation with the world?

2. How were the poor within Roman society treated?

3. What did Umbricius claim to be the only thing that could get a man out of trouble in the court system?

4. Which of the following activities is NOT a type of immorality discussed in the opening chapter of the novel?

5. Which of the following groups of gods did Juvenal suggest should step in to stop the promiscuous atrocities affecting his society?

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