Episode 53 Quiz
Welcome to the quiz for Episode 53: Then Came Hard Iron. See what you remember Virgil’s Georgics, its contents, and its historical context by clicking “START” below!
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In Virgil’s day, on the Palatine hill, which of the things listed below discussed in the episode reminded Romans of their legendary past?
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On the Nature of Things, which Virgil read, is about:
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In Virgil’s version of the popular “Ages of Man” story, we have fallen on the blighted age of iron because:
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The first book of the Georgics ends with an image of:
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In the eighteenth century, Coleridge and some his contemporaries thought that Virgil was:
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This book, published in 37 BCE, likely had a formative influence on the Georgics.
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In English literary history, poems like Thomas Moffet’s The Silkwormes (1599), and John Dyer’s The Fleece (1757) were unmistakably influenced by:
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Which topic is not covered by one of the books of the Georgics?
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Latin recitation and excellent translation, as we saw in this episode, can cue us into Virgil’s:
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These two authors recommend the correct days of the month for performing certain kinds of tasks.
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The best days are the first to pass, or “optima dies. . .prima fugit,” is the epigraph for Willa Cather’s novel My Antonia. In the Georgics, the associated line occurs in a passage about:
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Virgil finished the Georgics in about:
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The pseudoscientific practice of causing bees to spontaneously generate from the carcasses of dead animals is called:
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Cato the Elder’s De Agricultura was finished and went into circulation around which year?
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The end of this episode describes how the Georgics likely influenced this work of literature:
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