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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In southern Italy, from what people did Barbatus take two towns?
(a) Mentores.
(b) Histri.
(c) Catari.
(d) Samnites.

2. What was the name of the sister of Clodius, who was the wife of a senator and the lover of the poet Catullus?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Helvia.
(c) Alypia.
(d) Clodia.

3. Who did Marcus Aurelius brutally suppress?
(a) Egyptians.
(b) Germans.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Gauls.

4. When was the Septimontium festival held yearly?
(a) November.
(b) December.
(c) September.
(d) October.

5. What was the approximate value of the property that Cicero owned in 45 BCE?
(a) 9 million sesterces.
(b) 17 million sesterces.
(c) 20 million sesterces.
(d) 13 million sesterces.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the people of Fregellae attempt to break away from Rome, but were crushed by a Roman army led by Lucius Opimius?

2. During Nero's rule, when was Rome destroyed by fire?

3. In 66 BCE, how long had the Romans been fighting King Mithradates with little success?

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

5. In Chapter 2, who did Cicero appeal to at the end of his speech regarding Catiline?

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