- Unit 5. Social Life
- Getting Started
  - What Are We Learning?
  - Observe and Think
  - Map Your Mind
- Social Life
  - Time Measurement
  - The Average Day
  - Family
  - Education
  - Clothing
  - Gastronomy
  - Sport in Greece
  - Entertainment in Rome
    - Bathing
    - Circus
    - Amphitheatre
- Self-Evaluation Quiz
- Complementary Activities
  - The Greek and Latin Roots of English
  - One Myth One Song
  - Games, Comics and Stuff
- References

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# Self-Evaluation Quiz

Cuestionario SCORM
What was a gnomon?

| a Greek water clock.
| a Greek sand clock.
| a Greek sun clock.

Who ordered the Aegyptian Sosigenes to create a new calendar, which is ours with very few differences?

| Ptolemy
| Julius Caesar
| Augustus

What time did the Athenians attend different citizen meetings (boule, ecclesia, courts)?

| after dawn
| in the morning
| at noon

What was the salutatio?

| the ceremony of the bath
| it is the Roman name for a little nap
| the ceremony in which the wealthy received their clients, who were entrusted with different tasks.

What did the hanging of an olive branch at the front door announce in Ancient Greece?

| the birth of a boy
| a marriage
| the birth of a girl

Who belonged to a Roman family?

| the paterfamilias, the mother and the children
| the paterfamilias, the mother, the children and all the relatives living in the same house
| the paterfamilias and all the people under his authority in the same house, including the slaves

If you were 18 years old, where could you study rhetoric?

| in Athens
| in Athens and Rome
| in Rome

In what society was the State in charge of education?

| Sparta
| Athens
| Rome

What piece of clothing is Demosthenes wearing?

| exomis
| himation
| chiton

What was the garum?

| a Roman wine
| honey from Greece
| a Roman sauce

What was the maximum capacity of a triclinium?

| eight people
| nine people
| twelve people

The Olympic pentathlon consisted of discus, javelin, long jump, running and...

| wrestling
| boxing
| chariot racing

What was the hypocaustus?

| a room with a hot bath
| a warm room
| a system of central heating / underfloor heating

What was the name of the starting gates in an amphitheatre?

| spina
| carceres
| cavea

What gladiator combated with a curved scimitar and round shield?

| Thracian
| Samnite
| Murmillo

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