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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 genres does Juvenal write in?
(a) Plays.
(b) Essays.
(c) Novels.
(d) Poems.

3. What did Umbricius claim to be the only thing that could get a man out of trouble in the court system?
(a) Innocence.
(b) Faith.
(c) Muscular strength.
(d) Wealth.

4. In the text, which of the following substances makes up the statue of Apollo?
(a) Granite.
(b) Marble.
(c) Ivory.
(d) Gold.

5. What does Juvenal claim propelled him to write and share his creation with the world?
(a) Religion.
(b) Indignation.
(c) Community.
(d) Association.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following groups of people did Juvenal prefer?

3. Which of the following groups of people does Juvenal describe as being greedy?

4. To which of the following characters was Emperor Otho compared?

5. How were the poor within Roman society treated?

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