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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While discussing his sadness at how things change despite his attempts to immortalize them, Hadrian says science has been at a standstill since which famous individual?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Copernicus.

2. When Hadrian opens schools in Jerusalem that teach Greek literature, which of the following is a rabbi who orders his people only to study such things in the hour that is neither night nor day?
(a) Ismael.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Isaac.
(d) Joshua.

3. Upon returning to Athens after Antinous' death, with which friend does Hadrian stay?
(a) Hermogenes.
(b) Arrian.
(c) Theognis.
(d) Phlegon.

4. Upon returning to Alexandra after the visit to the magician in Canopus, Antinous convinces which individual to return to the magician with him?
(a) Menecrates.
(b) Chabrias.
(c) Lucius.
(d) Hadrian.

5. After traveling to the Senate at the end of "Disciplina Augusta, 251-271," Hadrian returns to which of the following locations?
(a) Tibur.
(b) Carthage.
(c) Athens.
(d) Antinoopolis.

6. At the end of "Disciplina Augusta, 211-233," Hadrian grows angry with his bumbling secretary. Which part of the man's body does Hadrian seriously injure?
(a) Spine.
(b) Leg.
(c) Ear.
(d) Eye.

7. When Hadrian presses Antinous to pick a tutor, the boy chooses which of the following individuals?
(a) Chabrias.
(b) Aristomenes.
(c) Euphrates.
(d) Demonax.

8. To which of the following famous sites does Hadrian travel with his wife soon after the death of Antinous?
(a) Alexander's tomb.
(b) Cleopatra's tomb.
(c) Sphinx.
(d) Colossus.

9. 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) Twelve.
(b) Eight.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Twenty-five.

10. When Hadrian states that if the collapse of Rome happens it will concern his successors, he mentions that it is which year of the Roman era?
(a) 847.
(b) 349.
(c) 265.
(d) 762.

11. In "Saeculum Aureum, 153-171," Hadrian refers to which actor as his Greek partridge?
(a) Arrian.
(b) Herod.
(c) Aristomenes.
(d) Demonax.

12. Hadrian grows angry with a writer during his first discussions of his life at the villa and summons the writer to tell him that he is exiled. What is the writer's name?
(a) Justinian.
(b) Paris.
(c) Papias.
(d) Juvenal.

13. Upon returning to Rome in "Disciplina Augusta, 251-271," Hadrian once again takes up his friendship with which of the following individuals?
(a) Fuscus.
(b) Arrian.
(c) Servianus.
(d) Lucius.

14. Hadrian and Antinous visit a temple under construction in Greece. Antinous feeds a ____________ that is brought there to consecrate the sanctuary upon its completion.
(a) Dove.
(b) Cow.
(c) Snake.
(d) Lion.

15. After traveling to Jerusalem Hadrian arrives in Alexandria, but his arrival there is kept quiet until which other individual arrives?
(a) Sabina.
(b) Agrippa.
(c) Lucius.
(d) Antinous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon growing bored in Alexandria, Hadrian and his company visit a magician in Canopus. What animal does Antinous insist upon sacrificing to destiny?

2. After his reflections on his own genetic makeup Hadrian says he completes the revision of which city's constitution?

3. 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?

4. When discussing his lack of children, Hadrian says that which of the following individuals was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters?

5. Toward the end of "Saeculum Aureum, 153-171," Hadrian mentions that which of the following individuals has died?

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