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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Naevolus leave his comfortable job in town?
(a) He has been fired.
(b) For more money.
(c) For an adventure.
(d) For the pursuit of love.

2. According to Naevolus, the animal smoothed with which of the following was most dangerous?
(a) Pumice.
(b) Fire.
(c) Stone.
(d) Knives.

3. What did Calvinus want to happen to the man who had stolen his money?
(a) He wanted him executed.
(b) He wanted him beaten.
(c) He wanted him banished.
(d) He wanted him jailed.

4. Which of the following adjectives did Juvenal use to describe men who spent their lives in squalor only to die millionaires?
(a) Wise.
(b) Misguided.
(c) Insane.
(d) Sinful.

5. What type of material did men in Rome use to construct their tables before the city grew rich from war?
(a) Fallen trees.
(b) Large stones.
(c) Baked mud.
(d) Pounded metal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did the captain of the sinking ship trust for safety?

2. Which of the following did Juvenal claim to be the true test of nobility?

3. With which of the following friends did Juvenal rejoice over Catullus' return?

4. During Juvenal's age of mankind, what did he claim to not have a mental base in men?

5. What did Juvenal claim to be the single force that ruled mankind?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of dinner party did Juvenal host when his friend Persicus went to visit him?

2. What type of relationship did Fuscinus' son have with his wife?

3. How did Catullus survive a sinking ship?

4. Who were Demosthenes and Circero?

5. Why did Persicus dine at Juvenal's home?

6. How did Naevolus' appearance change over the course of his friendship with Juvenal?

7. What event changed the way that Virro treated Naevolous, generating a change in his appearance?

8. What type of relationship did Naevolus have with Virro?

9. What comparison did Juvenal make of the morality of his day to the morality of ancient days?

10. What happened to Calvinus' fortune, and what was his reaction?

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