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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. When the first reports of the Parthian campaign come in, which of the following major cities has fallen to Rome?
(a) Mari.
(b) Assur.
(c) Babylon.
(d) Nippur.

2. When Hadrian is sent to further his education, he studies medicine under which of the following individuals?
(a) Themistocles.
(b) Lucretius.
(c) Leotychides.
(d) Scaurus.

3. When talking about the cities he establishes, Hadrian mentions the city of Hadrianotherae. In which region is this city located?
(a) Asia Minor.
(b) Epirus.
(c) Thrace.
(d) Sarmatia.

4. As Hadrian talks about his dislike of Roman feasts he mentions that he prefers the cuisine in which of the following countries?
(a) Spain.
(b) Asia.
(c) Greece.
(d) England.

5. After Hadrian's comments about Trajan's view of war, which of the following friends dies?
(a) Marcius Turbo.
(b) Trajan.
(c) Licinius Sura.
(d) Attianus.

Short Answer 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?

2. When Hadrian is sixteen and finishes a course of military training, his guardian is persuaded to send him where for further academic study?

3. After discussing the honors paid to Trajan after his death, Hadrian says that Rome has changed but he has promised himself to save it from the petrification of all BUT WHICH of the following cities?

4. In "Tellus Stabilita, 95-122," readers learn that Servianus' wife, Hadrian's sister, is named what?

5. At the close of "Animula Vagula Blandula," Hadrian says that when philosophers have nothing more to tell us it is excusable to turn to which of the following?

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