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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Saeculum Aureum, 171-189.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Hadrian begins to discuss Antinous' death, readers learn that he died at what age?
(a) Twenty-three.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Fifteen.

2. In his discussion of the cities he establishes, Hadrian says that which of the following cities is one he cares least to revisit but to which he has devoted more pains?
(a) Plotinopolis.
(b) Hadrianopolis.
(c) Hadrianotherae.
(d) Antinoopolis.

3. When Antinous joins the Mithraic cult after a merchant suggests that he do so, in which city does the initiation rite take place?
(a) Miletus.
(b) Sardis.
(c) Palmyra.
(d) Smyrna.

4. How old is Hadrian when Marullinus casts the horoscope that says Hadrian will one day rule the world?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Eight.
(d) Fifteen.

5. According to "Varius Multiplex Multiformis, 29-49," how is Aelius Hadrianus Afer related to Hadrian?
(a) Brother.
(b) Uncle.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) Father.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Hadrian goes to Pelusium to mediate the disagreements between the Greeks and Jews, he is forced to spend how many days in a courtroom over the matter?

2. When Hadrian is attacked by a slave he sends the man to work in the mines; he says that which of the following cities would have survived had it shown some generosity?

3. During the Sarmatian war Hadrian makes a practice of sending rash and ambitious soldiers back to Rome and replacing them with what kind of people?

4. Which of the following individuals becomes the new emperor in "Varius Multiplex Multiformis, 29-49"?

5. During Hadrian's first speech in the tribunal, he is laughed at for which of the following?

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