Question: What did obscure festivals offer Romans the opportunity to do?
Answer: reinterpretation

Question: What did Augustus wish to do for Roman religion?
Answer: reform

Question: What poet wrote a long poem describing Roman religious holidays?
Answer: Ovid

Question: What was lacking in the presentation of religious events in Rome?
Answer: authoritative calendar

Question: Under whose rule were new Christian festivals added to previous Roman holidays?
Answer: Christian

Question: Around what aspect did the Romans a lot space?
Answer: ritual

Question: What religious practice did Rome use to determine ritual?
Answer: augury

Question: What Roman word was used to refer to the scared precinct?
Answer: templum

Question: What common Latin words were used to mean a shrine or building?
Answer: aedes, delubrum, or fanum

Question: What monuments were the some of most visible of Roman culture?
Answer: temples

Question: What did each offering require to be valid in Roman religion?
Answer: prayer

Question: What did Pliny the Elder think that a sacrifice without prayer was?
Answer: useless

Question: What act alone had power in Roman thought?
Answer: Prayer

Question: What was missing in the formulas of prayer in Rome?
Answer: personal expression

Question: What knowledge was of importance in the potency of prayer?
Answer: correct verbal formulas

Question: When did the sacrifices to the deities of the heavens occur? 
Answer: daylight

Question: What color was the sacrifice mandated to be for heaven deities?
Answer: white

Question: What event was held after the sacrifice?
Answer: banquet

Question: What type of sacrifices were offered to gods with earth connections?
Answer: fertile

Question: Who ate the meat of the sacrifice during the after sacrifice  banquet?
Answer: officials and priests

Question: When were the gods below and the dead celebrated?
Answer: nighttime

Question: What type of sacrifice victims were the dark gods offered?
Answer: dark, fertile

Question: How was the sacrifice to the gods below handled?
Answer: burnt offering

Question: What daylight event was not celebrated after the dark sacrifice?
Answer: shared banquet

Question: What feature had importance in sacrifices?
Answer: Color

Question: What elements had the power of benefit or harm in Roman religion?
Answer: divine agencies

Question: What was expected when the divine intervention benefited the patron?
Answer: gratitude

Question: What kind of intervention could be sought to avoid disasters?
Answer: Divine

Question: What act was decreed in times of crisis in Rome?
Answer: public rites

Question: What was the point of public procession to the god's temples?
Answer: supplicating the gods

Question: What type of circumstances were called for in times of extreme difficulties?
Answer: Extraordinary

Question: What offering was Jupiter promised during the Second Punic War?
Answer: every animal born

Question: From whom was Rome asking for protection?
Answer: Hannibal

Question: What happened to the sacrifice if the god failed to uphold the agreement?
Answer: withheld

Question: What was the offering for the Emperor in Pompeii?
Answer: bull

Question: What were the exta of a sacrifice?
Answer: entrails

Question: How were the exta read in Roman religious practice?
Answer: disciplina Etrusca

Question: What part of the sacrifice were reserved for the gods?
Answer: exta and blood

Question: What part of the sacrifice was shared among humans?
Answer: meat

Question: Into what was the god's portion of the sacrifice placed?
Answer: fire on the altar

Question: What type of sacrifice was rare in Rome?
Answer: Human

Question: What act was repulsive to Romans?
Answer: Human sacrifice

Question: How were sacrifices of humans carried out in Rome?
Answer: buried

Question: Before the invasion of what area was human sacrifice carried out?
Answer: Gaul

Question: When was the invasion of Gaul by Rome?
Answer: 113 BC

Question: During what war was the first gladiator munus held?
Answer: First Punic War

Question: How was the gladiatorial combat described? 
Answer: funeral blood-rite

Question: What was not the ultimate purpose of gladiatorial rites?
Answer: death

Question: In what way was gladiatorial combat considered?
Answer: as an offering

Question: How did later Christians view Gladiatorial combats?
Answer: human sacrifice

Question: Who was the founder of the Roman Republic?
Answer: L. Junius Brutus

Question: What were stand-ins for child sacrifices to Mania?
Answer: woolen dolls

Question: Who was Mania in Roman religion?
Answer: Mother of the Lares

Question: What leader was the first consul of the Roman Republic?
Answer: L. Junius Brutus

Question: What acts were sometimes arranged so as to be sacrifices?
Answer: executions

Question: What act did Romans view as obnoxious?
Answer: human sacrifice

Question: To whom was human sacrifice usually attributed?
Answer: enemies

Question: What did Rome do about human sacrifice?
Answer: banned it

Question: As what  did the law of 81 BC view human sacrifice?
Answer: murder

Question: What ruler banned human sacrifice empire wide?
Answer: Hadrian

Question: Which individual in the household was responsible for the Vesta cult?
Answer: wife

Question: Who was the senior priest of the household in Rome?
Answer: pater familias

Question: Which ancient hero brought the lares cult to Rome?
Answer: Aeneas

Question: From what city did Aeneas bring the lares cult?
Answer: Troy

Question: What was put in the temple of Vesta?
Answer: Palladium

Question: On what kind of system was Roman religious law focused?
Answer: ritualised

Question: What form of religion was atheism considered to be? 
Answer: Religious neglect

Question: What results did proper religious practices produce?
Answer: harmony and prosperity.

Question: What could deviations from proper religious practices cause?
Answer: divine anger

Question: What did participation in public religious rites show about the individual?
Answer: commitment

Question: What organization payed for the maintenance official cults?
Answer: state

Question: Who funded non-official religious cults?
Answer: private individuals

Question: What group benefited from non- official cults? 
Answer: own communities

Question: What group presented the opening ceremonies of the Parentalia festival?
Answer: Vestals

Question: What individuals had the right to regulate all cults?
Answer: censor and pontifices

Question: What was lacking as to the profession of a priest class in Rome?
Answer: separate priestly caste

Question: What authority in a community sponsored religious rites? 
Answer: highest

Question: What type of religious participants were available for consultation?
Answer: Specialists

Question: What were the earliest priesthoods? 
Answer: flamines

Question: Which member of a family functioned as priest?
Answer: paterfamilias

Question: Who supervised sacred rites during the era of kings?
Answer: rex sacrorum

Question: What type of authority did the rex sacrorum lack?
Answer: civil

Question: What group's power increased after the rise of the Roman Republic?
Answer: Republican pontifices

Question: What individual became more powerful during the late Republic?
Answer: pontifex maximus

Question: By the late Republic, what position had become largely symbolic?
Answer: rex sacrorum

Question: What group selected public priests in Rome?
Answer: collegia

Question: What was the term of office for a priest in Rome?
Answer: lifetime

Question: What limited an individual's access to religious offices?
Answer: law

Question: Because of the lack of pay, what was the type of honor in being a priest?
Answer: costly

Question: What did a priesthood in the Imperial cult gain a provencial?
Answer: Roman citizenship

Question: How many Vestals were there in Rome?
Answer: six

Question: Of what was Vesta the goddess?
Answer: hearth

Question: Of what were the Vestals protectors?
Answer: vital flame