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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tellus Stabilita, 122-149.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After discussing his travels in Greece, Hadrian says that he holds his post as governor of Syria for how long when Trajan comes to him at Antioch?
(a) Nine months.
(b) One year.
(c) Five years.
(d) Six weeks.

2. Which of the following individuals becomes Hadrian's most vehement critic shortly after his marriage?
(a) Trajan.
(b) Plotina.
(c) Tibullus.
(d) Servianus.

3. Hadrian mentions in "Tellus Stabilita, 122-149" that a friend in Rome took him to see Epictetus as a young boy shortly before which emperor ordered that man's exile?
(a) Vespasian.
(b) Titus.
(c) Trajan.
(d) Domitian.

4. In "Tellus Stabilita, 95-122," Hadrian regrets that he must fire a friend. He says that he sometimes counts which individual among his human victims?
(a) Crito.
(b) Lucius Quietus.
(c) Attianus.
(d) Marcius Turbo.

5. As "Animula Vagula Blandula" opens, Hadrian has been to see his doctor. What is the doctor's name?
(a) Hermogenes.
(b) Blandula.
(c) Iollas.
(d) Marcus.

Short Answer Questions

1. When talking about his frustration with the movement of the equinoxes, Hadrian says that this precession was calculated long ago by which individual?

2. While discussing his doctor visit, Hadrian comments that a man does not practice medicine for 30 years without some ______________.

3. 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?

4. After discussing various sculptors, Hadrian includes a quote: "Trahit sua quemque voluptas." What is the translation he provides for this quote?

5. As Hadrian continues to discuss old age, sickness, and death, he comments that which of the following basic joys is deserting him?

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