Quiz 3 on Julian Calendar

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Quiz on the Julian Calendar: Part 3 General

As the third in the series, you may have to do a bit of digging for the information behind the answers. This self-grading quiz draws on a variety of articles on this site about the Roman calendar.

1. What is the name of the person from whom Julius Caesar learned what he needed to fix the Roman calendar?
Alexander
Cleopatra
Hipparchus
Sosigenes

2. What term is used to apply to days between the Romans' months of February and March?
Leap Year
Intercalary
Discretionary
a.d.

3. Before it was named August(us), what was the name of the month?
Quintilis
Sextilis
Septilis
Octavianus

4. On which day of the month was there not supposed to be a visible moon?
The Ides
The Kalends
The Nones
None of the Above

5. Given the Ides of a specific month, would you be able to calculate its Nones? If so, how?
The Nones were on the 9th day of any month
The Nones were exactly one week before the Ides
The Nones were 8 days before the Ides
You would need more information

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