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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At which city does Hadrian meet with a nameless priestess when he begins plans to establish the cult of Antinous?
(a) Eleusis.
(b) Corinth.
(c) Aegina.
(d) Decelea.

2. After discussing the Jewish rebellion in Jerusalem, Hadrian takes a young tribune named _________ as his new aide?
(a) Celer.
(b) Rufus.
(c) Simon.
(d) Bethar.

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

4. 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) Joshua.
(b) Isaac.
(c) Ismael.
(d) Abraham.

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

6. 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) Papias.
(c) Juvenal.
(d) Paris.

7. When Hadrian begins to discuss Antinous' death, readers learn that he died at what age?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twenty-three.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Nineteen.

8. During the visit to the magician in Canopus, the animal sacrifice is drowned. To which god is drowning intended to send the sacrificed animal in this ritual?
(a) Bast.
(b) Osiris.
(c) Isis.
(d) Horace.

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

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

11. After his return to Greece and rebuilding of a city, Hadrian says that which individual is 12 years younger and the best of his friends?
(a) Demonax.
(b) Arrian.
(c) Herod.
(d) Aristomenes.

12. During the sight-seeing trip with his wife which is meant to cheer him, Hadrian realizes that it would be Antinous' birthday; how old would he have been had he lived?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty-three.
(d) Twenty-five.

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

14. 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) Leg.
(b) Ear.
(c) Eye.
(d) Spine.

15. During their stay in Antioch, which of the following individuals tells Antinous and Hadrian the story of "The Bride of Corinth"?
(a) Phlegon.
(b) Aspasius.
(c) Philo.
(d) Satyrus.

Short Answer Questions

1. As "Saeculum Aureum, 153-171" opens, Hadrian has passed the summer in which area?

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

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

4. Upon returning to Athens after Antinous' death, with which friend does Hadrian stay?

5. After Hadrian forbids the Jews from reestablishing themselves in Jerusalem, they settle in all BUT WHICH of the following cities?

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