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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is a villa ?
A small house
A place where all people could meet
A large house in the country with its own grounds and a farm
A place where people buy and sell things
- 2. Multiple Choice
A mosaic at Fishbourne Palace showed who riding a dolphin?
Mr Fear
Aphrodite
Cupid
Jupiter
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who likely owned Fishbourne Palace?
Cogidubnus
the Emperor Claudius
the governor Agricola
Boudica
- 4. Multiple Choice
What was the name of the stacked bricks with a furnace beneath to heat a bathhouse?
hypocaust
bypercaust
hypnocaust
holocaust
- 5. Multiple Choice
What was used to decorate the villae? Tick ALL that are correct.
wall paintings
mosaics
posters of rock bands
tasteful memes
- 6. Multiple Choice
Fishbourne was laid out in wings around a central ____.
garden courtyard
colonnade
statue
atrium
- 7. Multiple Choice
T or F: ALL villae had underfloor heating.
true
false
- 8. Multiple Choice
Would a large villa need slaves to run effectively?
yes, of course
no
nobody will ever really know
- 9. Multiple Choice
Chedworth Villa was conveniently close to...
Manchester
Lincoln
Cirencester
Londinium
- 10. Multiple Choice
North Leigh Villa in Oxfordshire had 16 mosaic floors
true
false
- 11. Multiple Choice
True or False: Columella wrote about where to keep your chained-up slaves
True
False
- 12. Multiple Choice
What special feature was in the corner of the site of Chedworth Villa?
a shrine to Mithras
a goldmine
a nymphaeum
a strange monolith
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