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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Upon returning to Greece in "Saeculum Aureum, 153-171," Hadrian sets out to rebuild which city?
(a) Thebes.
(b) Athens.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Delphi.

3. After his reflections on his own genetic makeup Hadrian says he completes the revision of which city's constitution?
(a) Rome.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Athens.
(d) Florence.

4. Hadrian talks about his reproach of Trajan for waiting twenty years to name a successor. How many years has Hadrian evaded the same issue?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Eight.
(d) Twelve.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In his discussion of things he hopes to accomplish, Hadrian says he has assembled a congress of physicians and magistrates to determine what about humans?

2. After a massive earthquake destroys much of Antioch, Trajan allows members of which religion to be blamed and massacred for the natural disaster?

3. Which of the following individuals does Hadrian order executed due to an assassination plot uncovered after Lucius' adoption?

4. As Hadrian discusses his tomb, readers learn that it is placed along the bank of which river?

5. After traveling to Jerusalem Hadrian arrives in Alexandria, but his arrival there is kept quiet until which other individual arrives?

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