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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Patientia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As "Disciplina Augusta, 211-233" opens, to which of the following cities does Hadrian return?
(a) Rome.
(b) Antioch.
(c) Hadrianopolis.
(d) Alexandria.

2. What is the name of Trajan's grandniece, to whom Hadrian is married at twenty-eight?
(a) Sabina.
(b) Livia.
(c) Plotina.
(d) Agrippina.

3. 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) One year.
(b) Five years.
(c) Nine months.
(d) Six weeks.

4. 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) Bithynia.
(b) Thrace.
(c) Byzantium.
(d) Hadrianopolis.

5. As "Saeculum Aureum, 153-171" opens, Hadrian has passed the summer in which area?
(a) Asia Minor.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Rome.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing the craftsmen he takes with him on his travels, Hadrian says that he offered which of the following individuals a Latin secretaryship?

2. According to "Varius Multiplex Multiformis, 49-69," what is the only thing Trajan respects at once?

3. Readers learn in Hadrian's discussion of his self-observation that he is almost how old?

4. 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?

5. After the Jewish protests over Greek literature in schools, which of the following individuals lets his nephew die rather than accept a Greek doctor?

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