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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In 63 BCE, who gave Cicero intelligence regarding a violent plot?
(a) Fulvia.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) Aelina.
(d) Livia.

3. Where were painting discovered in a tomb that depicted exploits of Servius Tullius?
(a) Umbria.
(b) Vulci.
(c) Lombardy.
(d) Liguria.

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

5. When was the first major Roman road, the Via Appia, built?
(a) 309 BCE.
(b) 319 BCE.
(c) 300 BCE.
(d) 312 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal was said to have nurtured Remus and Romulus?

2. 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?

3. When did Spartacus command a force of ex-gladiators and runaways?

4. How many of Cicero's letters survived?

5. When was the first aqueduct to bring water into Rome constructed?

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