Reading Exercises on Roman Gods & Gladiators
by Kathy Braden, Bow High School, NH
Proserpina Worksheet
Exercise 2
Answer the following questions based on the story in Exercise 1:
1. Quot (how many) filias Ceres habebat?
2. Quid erat nomen virginis?
3. Cur incolae Siciliae habebant magnam copiam frumenti?
4. Quibuscum Proserpina per agros ambulabat?
5. Quid virgines legebant?
6. Nonne omnes homines Plutonem timebant?
7. Num agebat Pluto equos albos (white)?
8. Nonne Pluto statim virginem Proserpinam amavit?
9. Cur puellae virginem non servabant?
10. Quo portabat Pluto puellam miseram?
Nota bene: -ne at the end of a word implies a question with a yes
Nonne implies a question that wants a YES!!! answer.
Num implies a question that expects a NO!!!! answer.
