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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people lived in Rome in 63 BCE?
(a) 1,250,000.
(b) About half a million.
(c) More than a million.
(d) 984,000.

2. What animal was said to have nurtured Remus and Romulus?
(a) Dog.
(b) Wolf.
(c) Deer.
(d) Goat.

3. When was the poet Ovid banished?
(a) 8 CE.
(b) 9 CE.
(c) 15 CE.
(d) 11 CE.

4. How many of Cicero's letters survived?
(a) Almost 1,000.
(b) 930.
(c) 1,100.
(d) About 1,200.

5. On what river is Rome?
(a) Ofanto.
(b) Po.
(c) Rubicon.
(d) Tiber.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. In the history of Athens, what were the most inhabitants that the city had?

3. When did Hannibal cross the Alps and inflict terrible loses on the Romans?

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

5. When was the first tragedy shown in Rome that Livius Andronicus adapted into Latin from Greek?

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