CSTU 101 Quiz 4 The Roman Narrative

CSTU 101 Quiz 4 The Roman Narrative

CSTU 101 Quiz 4 The Roman Narrative

Covers the Learn material from Module 4: Week 4.

1. Which two structures illustrate Roman eclecticism?
2. Who is credited with introducing the Neo-classical architecture to America’s buildings?
3. The central wedge-shaped stone in an arch; the last stone put in place, it makes the arch stable.
4. These letters were the universal mark of Roman authority.
5. Which Roman city was destroyed by a volcano, Mt. Vesuvius?
6. From the Christian’s perspective which of these is true?
7. One of Rome’s most famous narrative art monuments is _____________.
8. What significant structural architectural principle did the Romans develop?
9. Who proclaimed himself to be the first emperor of Rome?
10. The Punic Wars involved which two countries?
11. What was Rome’s major and most enduring contribution to Western Culture.
12. Which document did Jefferson write?
13. What structure did the Romans build that allowed their expression of who they were in the world and what they were trying to do? It was also used as a propaganda device; a representation of the yoke of oxen.
14. The greatest Roman poet of the Republic.
15. What were as common in Rome as billboards are to us today?
16. This is the best preserved of all Roman buildings because it became a Catholic church early in the history of the Church of Rome.
17. Greeks characteristically created while the Romans were often content to copy art; Roman artists excelled in portraiture and ____________________ narrative precisely because they copied the work as they saw it.
18. Rome had two early philosophies that had been taught by the Greeks, one being Epicureanism. What was the other one?
19. The Romans valued education and scorned the uneducated, whether Roman or foreigner. Who wrote “Ignorance condemned these impoverished souls to “the tyranny of the present”?
20. Who wrote the poem the Aeneid?
21. The Greeks had slaves but the Romans chose not to embrace slavery.
22. The main point we were illustrating with the aqueduct was Roman imperialism.
23. For the Romans, imperialism was a matter of living out their destiny.
24. Greece has very little influence on the Roman culture?
25. The Roman Coliseum was not as big as previously thought and probably only held a few thousand people.
26. A good word to describe the Roman mind in relations to art, would be idealistic.
27. The Romans took pride in their Imperialism.
28. The chief arts of Rome were architecture and sculpture.
29. Lex, Rex was written by the King of England in 1644.
30. Much of our knowledge of Roman painting comes from the buried city of Pompeii.