3.6 JUVENAL

Question 1

Insula collapsing quotes

Answer 1

• ‘yawning crack’
• ‘hold up by slender props’
• ‘At the edge of ruin’

Question 2

Risk of fire quotes

Answer 2

• ‘Third floor is already smoking’
• ‘One bare tile protects us’

Question 3

Unhygenicness quotes

Answer 3

• ‘barbrous mice gnawed away’
• ‘fevered stomach’
• ‘source of sickness’

Question 4

Poverty quotes

Answer 4

• No one will give you a crust
• You have to be filthy rich to live in Rome

Question 5

Risk of being crushed and crowds quotes

Answer 5

• Tide ahead obstructs me
• Forever trampled by mighty feet

Question 6

Risk of being out a night quotes

Answer 6

• Sudden knife at work
• Get a good kicking

Question 7

Who is narrating in Juvenal’s satires

Answer 7

Umbricius

Question 8

Where has Umbricius gone

Answer 8

Left Rome from countryside to Cumae

Question 9

What is wrong with the poor man Cordus’ bed

Answer 9

It is so small that the dwarf Procula couldn’t fit into it

Question 10

Who’s house burns down

Answer 10

Cordus

Question 11

When will Umbricius see Juvenal

Answer 11

Only when he is outside the city