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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) 63 BCE.
(b) 45 BCE.
(c) 72 BCE.
(d) 56 BCE.

2. When did Hungarian protesters use one of Cicero's phrases to protest the rewrite of the constitution?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2012.

3. In Chapter 2, who did Cicero appeal to at the end of his speech regarding Catiline?
(a) Mars.
(b) Neptune.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Mercury.

4. When was Polybius in his 30s and taken to Rome as one of 1,000 Greek detainees?
(a) 194 BCE.
(b) 155 BCE.
(c) 168 BCE.
(d) 172 BCE.

5. Toward the end of the sixth century BCE by the time the last king was thrown out approximately how many people would have lived in Rome?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 20,000 to 30,000.
(c) 18,000.
(d) 15,000 to 20,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, within what radius of Rome were heroic battles fought?

2. When did Gaius Sallustius Crispus write about the war against Catiline?

3. How old were Catline and Cicero when they faced off before the senate in 63 BCE?

4. When did European cities begin to reach a million inhabitants?

5. How old was Pompey when he became a consul in 70 BCE?

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