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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Rome determined to have been founded?
(a) April 30, 749 BCE.
(b) April 18, 743 BCE.
(c) April 21, 753 BCE.
(d) April 9, 752 BCE.

2. When was Pompeii destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius?
(a) 74 CE.
(b) 86 CE.
(c) 79 CE.
(d) 80 CE.

3. What interest rate did Marcus Junius Brutus charge the people of Salamis when he lent money?
(a) 48 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 18 percent.
(d) 36 percent.

4. When was the fire where Galen lost the contents of his lock-up storeroom near the Forum?
(a) 186 CE.
(b) 189 CE.
(c) 197 CE.
(d) 192 CE.

5. When did Athens give the idea of democracy to the modern world?
(a) 5th century BCE.
(b) 4th century BCE.
(c) 3rd century BCE.
(d) 6th century BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Caesar murdered?

2. In the third century CE, how many petitions did a governor of Egphy receive in just three days?

3. Under which emperor did Pliny the Younger serve as a governor of the province of Bithynia?

4. How long was the siege when Scipio Aemilianus cut the town off from the sea?

5. How far back might excavations under modern Rome over the last 100 years have unearthed?

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