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Junior Cycle Classics: Home, family and dining

How often Home, family and dining comes up on the Classics papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Home, family and dining, Common Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Home, family and dining.

(a)Which room in a Roman house had couches on three sides for dining?
  1. Tablinum
  2. Triclinium
  3. Peristylium
(b)A Roman father had patria potestas. What did this mean?
  1. He shared equal power with his wife
  2. He had to obey his own eldest son
  3. He had legal power over his children
(c)The tablinum lay between the atrium and the garden. What was it used for?
  1. The master's office and records
  2. Storing wine and olive oil
  3. A bedroom for the children
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(a) Triclinium

(b) He had legal power over his children

(c) The master's office and records

Your turn: Common Level questions on Home, family and dining.

Common Level

Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q6
2025Q4, Q6
2024Q6
2023Q5
2022Q4, Q7

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Home, family and dining questions

Home, family and dining, 2 marks

What was the atrium of a Roman house mainly used for?

  1. Cooking the whole family's meals
  2. Sleeping, like a bedroom
  3. Greeting visitors and clients
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Greeting visitors and clients

The atrium was the grand entrance hall. Clients waited here for the morning greeting, and ancestor masks and the lararium were often kept here to impress visitors.

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