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Bath Quiz

1. A strigil was mainly used
to ensure the heated water was evenly distributed in the hot pools.
to protect the bather's feet from hot floors.
to scrape the bather's body.
to provide the bather with an opportunity to splash himself with cold water.

2. The Romans identified the Celtic goddess of Spring Sulis with their own goddess
Ceres
Diana
Minerva
Proserpina

3. If found in the excavation of a Roman bath house which would not have belonged to an ancient Roman bather?
olive oil
soap
glass perfume bottle
tweezers

4. Seneca complained about the noise of the bath house he lived above and especially about the screams caused by what?
Someone discovering his cloak has been stolen.
A bath slave being awakened by an irate master.
Someone being rubbed too harshly with a strigil.
Someone having his armpits plucked.

5. What doesn't describe a curse tablet (or attitudes towards it)
Transfers possession of a stolen item to a god.
Request for vengeance.
A list of four-letter words.
Works extra efficiently if written backwards.

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