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Romance Languages Quiz Number 1

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1. "Romance languages are so named because Latin was the language of love.";
True
False

2. "If we want to get a look at the way the people actually spoke in ancient Rome, we should look at graffiti not poetry.";
True
False

3. "Modern Italian is the same as Vulgar Latin";
True
False

4. "The language of traders was probably closely matched by the written language of Classical Latin literature.";
True
False

5. "The Latin of the orations of Cicero is more formal than the daily language he probably spoke.";
True
False

6. "When Trajan was about to conquer Dacia (modern Romania), the local king (Decebalus) committed suicide.";
True
False

7. "Catalan and Castilian are variant spellings for the same language.";
True
False

8. "When the Romans conquered Spain, its principal language was Spanish.";
True
False

9. "When Caesar conquered the Gauls they were already speaking French.";
True
False

10. "Martial's epigrams and Catullus' sexually threatening poems are good examples of Vulgar Latin.";
True
False

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