Q01of 10
What does the speaker predict will happen to agricultural land as a result of Roman luxury?
Q02of 10
Which tree does the speaker present as a symbol of misplaced luxury supplanting useful cultivation?
Q03of 10
What does the contrast between 'private income was contracted' and 'that of the community was great' most directly illustrate?
Q04of 10
What is the primary tone of this poem?
Q05of 10
The phrase 'unshaven Cato' is best understood as a reference to which of the following?
Q06of 10
Which literary technique does the speaker use when contrasting the old Romans' modest huts with today's 'galleries measured by ten-feet rules'?
Q07of 10
According to the poem, what were Roman citizens of old legally obligated to do, even while living modestly themselves?
Q08of 10
The laurel with 'dense boughs' that 'shall exclude the burning beams' functions primarily as an image of what?
Q09of 10
The speaker invokes Romulus and Cato chiefly to serve what rhetorical purpose?
Q10of 10
The image of 'ponds of wider extent than the Lucrine lake' most likely conveys which idea?
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