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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Hadrian is attacked by a slave he sends the man to work in the mines; he says that which of the following cities would have survived had it shown some generosity?
(a) Argos.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Delphi.
(d) Sparta.

4. While discussing his childhood, Hadrian says that though officially a Roman emperor is said to be born in Rome, he was actually born where?
(a) Gaul.
(b) Asia Minor.
(c) Italica.
(d) Spain.

5. During his travels in Greece, Hadrian mentions seeing the spaces for statues in sanctuaries left empty by the theft of which emperor?
(a) Domitian.
(b) Nero.
(c) Caligula.
(d) Trajan.

6. 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) Marcius Turbo.
(b) Attianus.
(c) Lucius Quietus.
(d) Crito.

7. After discussing various sculptors, Hadrian includes a quote: "Trahit sua quemque voluptas." What is the translation he provides for this quote?
(a) Beauty is in every figure.
(b) Life is but fleeting.
(c) The body leaves its mark.
(d) Each to his own bent.

8. During Hadrian's first speech in the tribunal, he is laughed at for which of the following?
(a) Accent.
(b) Stutter.
(c) Information.
(d) Clothing.

9. According to "Varius Multiplex Multiformis, 69-92," what is the name of Trajan's niece, also Hadrian's mother-in-law?
(a) Matidia.
(b) Plotina.
(c) Palma.
(d) Edessa.

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

11. During his travels in "Varius Multiplex Multiformis, 69-92," Hadrian attends a peasant wedding in which of the following towns?
(a) Megara.
(b) Delphi.
(c) Arcadia.
(d) Sparta.

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

13. As tensions explode in the Orient, Trajan's officer Quietus is dispatched to deal with all BUT WHICH of the following cities?
(a) Hatra.
(b) Edessa.
(c) Seleucia.
(d) Cyrene.

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

15. As "Tellus Stabilita, 122-149" opens, Hadrian mentions that he once tried tainted meat because it was a delicacy among which people?
(a) Germanic.
(b) British.
(c) Egyptian.
(d) African.

Short Answer Questions

1. As "Varius Multiplex Multiformis, 49-69" opens, which of the following individuals is in command of the troops in Lower Germany?

2. In the first few months of Hadrian's reign as emperor, he is forced to send which of the following individuals to Egypt to reestablish order?

3. When Trajan's will is finally written, and Hadrian learns that he will be Trajan's successor, which of the following individuals is the first to salute him as emperor?

4. After Nerva's death, Hadrian sets out to take the news to his cousin. Whose servants attack Hadrian on the way?

5. 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?

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