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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Disciplina Augusta, 233-251.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Antinous decides on a tutor, Hadrian says that which of the following individuals, a Stoic philosopher, asks his permission to retire from service by suicide?
(a) Chabrias.
(b) Euphrates.
(c) Demonax.
(d) Aristomenes.

2. Readers learn in Hadrian's discussion of his self-observation that he is almost how old?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Sixty.

3. Hadrian discusses his travels after the installment of Antinous in his life. Outside which city do the local officials draw up enormous fires for Hadrian's troops?
(a) Byzantium.
(b) Thrace.
(c) Bithynia.
(d) Hadrianopolis.

4. When discussing the craftsmen he takes with him on his travels, Hadrian says that he offered which of the following individuals a Latin secretaryship?
(a) Phlegon.
(b) Florus.
(c) Suetonius.
(d) Tranquillus.

5. When Hadrian is initiated into a religious cult, the ceremony takes place on the banks of which river?
(a) Rhenus.
(b) Tiber.
(c) Varta.
(d) Danube.

Short Answer Questions

1. After their trip to make sacrifices on Mount Casius in Antioch, Hadrian and his troops continue to Jerusalem. Hadrian intends to rebuild the city nearly destroyed by which emperor?

2. Which of the following individuals becomes Hadrian's most vehement critic shortly after his marriage?

3. What is the name of Trajan's grandniece, to whom Hadrian is married at twenty-eight?

4. In "Disciplina Augusta, 233-251," which of the following individuals is an informer and spy for Rome?

5. While discussing the events that lead up to Antinous' death, Hadrian says that a five-year drought ends upon his arrival in ____________.

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