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Junior Cycle Classics: Work, status and slavery
How often Work, status and slavery comes up on the Classics papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years
Work, status and slavery, Common Level(7 marks)
Quick ones on Work, status and slavery.
(a)What name was given to Rome's old noble families?
- Plebeians
- Patricians
- Provincials
(b)In ancient Athens, what was a metic?
- A citizen on jury service
- A slave who worked in the mines
- A free foreigner living there
(c)What did a Roman client do each morning at the salutatio?
- Greeted his patron at his house
- Cooked his patron's breakfast
- Paid his patron's taxes for him
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(a) Patricians
(b) A free foreigner living there
(c) Greeted his patron at his house
Common Level
Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Q5 |
| 2024 | Q5 |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Q8 |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.