III. Choose the right sentence .

1. The elements of earlier styles were used by the Romans.

a) The Romans borrowed much from other civilizations.

b) The Romans preferred spatial composition.

c) Roman architecture had little in common with earlier styles.

2. Roman architecture was designed to reflect the power of the City.

a) There were three types of houses in ancient Rome.

b) The circus was also used for spectacles.

c) The Roman architects reproduced the might of the Empire in their works.

3. The bridges and aqueducts of the Romans rank among their greatest monuments.

a) The law of perspective was discovered in Rome.

b) Roman technical works still strike imagination as the most perfect structures.

c) The best preserved bridge is that built by Augustus and Tiberius at Rimini.

4. Imperial thermae had facilities for every gymnastic exercise.

a) Grand baths featured luxurious interiors.

b) The Baths of Dicletian had accommodation for 3, 200 bathers.

c) Grand baths were equipped with athletic facilities.

5. The Forum was the political, economical and religious centre of ancient Rome.

a) The temples and public buildings were grouped around the Forum.

b) Outside the city gates was the necropolis.

c) Tiberius built a palace on the northwest side of the Palatine Hill.

IV.Choose the right verb.

1. “ De Architectura “ …………… almost every aspect of architecture.

a) discovered

b) proved

c) covered

d) Knew.

2. The Romans ……………. freely the elements of earlier styles.

a) invented

b) built

c) differed

d) used.

3. The domus ……………. of suites of rooms grouped around atrium and peristyle.

a) designed

b) consisted

c) made

d) added.

4. Insulae ………… on light from the exterior and a central court.

a) influenced

b) gave

c) depended

d) determined.

5. The exteriors of villa …………. colonnades and porticos.

a) had

b) connected

c) planned

d) decorated.

V.Choose the right form of the adjective.

1. The Pantheon is ………….. surviving circular temple of antiquity.

a) greater

b) greatest

c) the greatest

d) the greater.

2. Among ………. remaining examples of circular temples are those of Vesta and Mater Matuta in Rome, Vesta at Tivoli, and Venus at Baalbeck.

a) important

b) the most important

c) more important

d) most important.

3. In front is a porch with an inscription commemorating ………….. building of Marcus Agrippa but built with the existing rotunda under the emperor Hadrian.

a) the earliest

b) earlier

c) an earlier

d) earliest.

4. The rotunda and dome are among ……….. examples of Roman concrete work.

a) fine

b) finer

c) finest

d) the finest.

5. The Colosseum was …………. and most important amphitheatre of Rome.

a) larger

b) the largest

c) largest

d) the larger.