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7. A reader of the article could determine that
a. gladiators were all criminals

b. Roman citizens were cruel to animals
c. gladiators fought men, women, dwarfs, and animals in the contests
d. gladiators were all heroes

8. Which of these states a fact?

a. Gladiators were all well-built and muscular men.
b. All gladiators wanted to win large sums of money.
c. A gladiator named Spartacus was once a slave.
d. The crowd could not save a gladiator in trouble.

9. The article was created mainly to
a. explain who gladiators were and what they did
b. tell readers what the Emperor Constantine did

c. explain why many the Romans loved gladiator fights
d. convince readers to visit Italy

10. The word dwarf describes

a. a magical creature
b. an animal that was smaller than others of its kind
c. a person who has an abnormally small stature

d. none of the above

True or False

Check “T” for true and “F” for false.

a. The spectacle of men fighting in public contests, T F

usually to the death, was a popular form of
entertainment in ancient China.

b. At first, gladiators were slaves, prisoners of war, T F

and criminals who were forced to fight in contests.

c. Gladiators sometimes won large sums of money T F

and became famous.
d. Gladiators fought to the death, but if one man were T F

losing, the crowd could save him by waving their

hands.

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