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Every OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation exam question on Experiencing Roman city life, 2021–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 17 questions on Experiencing Roman city life, as a list
- June 2024, Roman City Life, Q19 (15 marks): Answer Question 19 or Question 20. You must use any suitable literature you have studied to support your answer. 19 ‘Rich Romans led much happier lives than poo
- June 2024, Roman City Life, Q20 (15 marks): Answer Question 19 or Question 20. You must use any suitable literature you have studied to support your answer. 20 ‘Juvenal’s Satire 3 shows that life in Rome
- June 2023, Roman City Life, Q11 (1 mark): Source G: Juvenal imagines fires in a block of flats and at the house of a rich man. 11 Why does the writer suggest it was better to live on the ground floor of
- June 2023, Roman City Life, Q12(a) (2 marks): Pick out two phrases which highlight Cordus’ extreme poverty. Use details from lines 203–211 in your answer. 1 2 [2]
- June 2023, Roman City Life, Q12(b) (1 mark): How does one of these points show that Cordus is very poor? [1]
- June 2023, Roman City Life, Q13 (6 marks): Source G: Juvenal imagines fires in a block of flats and at the house of a rich man. 13 How does Juvenal contrast the fates of the poor man Cordus and the rich
- June 2023, Roman City Life, Q16 (4 marks): Source I: Pliny writes to a friend, Calvisius, about chariot racing. 16 Discuss two reasons why Pliny dislikes chariot racing using details from lines 1–6 of th
- June 2023, Roman City Life, Q17 (4 marks): Source I: Pliny writes to a friend, Calvisius, about chariot racing. 17 Referring to lines 7–17, is Pliny more critical of the actual races or the fans of chari
- June 2023, Roman City Life, Q18 (8 marks): Source I: Pliny writes to a friend, Calvisius, about chariot racing. 18 Did both wealthy and poor Romans enjoy the same leisure activities in the literature tha
- June 2023, Roman City Life, Q20 (15 marks): Answer Question 19 or 20. You must use any suitable literature you have studied to support your answer. 20 ‘All Romans, rich and poor alike, preferred to live i
- June 2022, Roman City Life, Q15(a) (2 marks): Juvenal states that the drunk man will not attack a rich man in lines 283–285. Identify two phrases from the passage which Juvenal uses to show that the man is
- June 2022, Roman City Life, Q15(b) (1 mark): How does one of these phrases show that the man is rich? [1]
- June 2022, Roman City Life, Q16(a) (1 mark): ‘Yet despises me’ (line 285). In the lines following this, how does Juvenal make it clear that the man who will be attacked is not wealthy? [1]
- June 2022, Roman City Life, Q16(b) (2 marks): In lines 297–301, in what ways does Juvenal emphasise the suffering of the victim? Make two points. 1. 2. [2]
- June 2022, Roman City Life, Q18 (8 marks): Source J: The Country Mouse visits the Town Mouse’s home. 18 Does Horace’s story of the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse show that it was better to live in the
- November 2021, Roman City Life, Q11 (2 marks): Source H: Juvenal discusses the dangers of living in the city. 11 Identify two dangers that Juvenal mentions about living in the city in lines 1–5. 1. 2. [2]
- November 2021, Roman City Life, Q13 (2 marks): Source H: Juvenal discusses the dangers of living in the city. 13 Give two examples of ways in which Juvenal makes life in the city sound hazardous elsewhere in
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