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Stage 12: Tremores - Interpretive Reading

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Instructions:
Read pg 164 from Stage 12 of your textbook - http://bit.ly/Stage12Tremores
Answer the following question based on what you have read. 

Question 1

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What was Caecilius doing at the beginning of this story? Where was he?

Question 2

2.

Why was Iulius worried?

Question 3

3.

What was Caecilius doing when the tremors began? (line 6)

Question 4

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What did Caecilius say that he and Grumio had seen when they went into the garden?

Question 5

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What two things did Caecilius say he had done next? (11-12)

Question 6

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Why did Iulius think that Caecilius and his household were fortissimi (line 13)?

Question 7

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Why was Caecilius so sure that his Lares (gods) would look after his househould? (lines 17-19)?

Question 8

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subito servus triclinium intravit (line 20). What news did he bring?

Question 9

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What was Caecilius' reaction to the news? Why did he react this way?

Question 10

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Read the last three lines of the story. Why do you think Clemens has come?

Question 11

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Translate lines 16 - 19 to English.