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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapers 8-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the fire that created the layers of burnt debris excavated in the Forum probably occur?
(a) 499 BCE.
(b) 484 BCE.
(c) 500 BCE.
(d) 509 BCE.

2. When did Alexander the Great lead his Macedonia army on a conquest from Greece to India.
(a) 300 to 318 BCE.
(b) 315 BCE to 290 BCE.
(c) 334 to 323 BCE.
(d) 339 BCE to 327 BCE.

3. When did Cicero's former slave Marcus Tullius Tiro die?
(a) 11 BCE.
(b) 29 BCE.
(c) 4 BCE.
(d) 40 BCE.

4. In Roman times, how many of the children born would die by the age of ten?
(a) A third.
(b) One fourth.
(c) Half.
(d) Two-thirds.

5. How long was Cicero married to Terentia?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 28 years.
(c) 34 years.
(d) 25 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the perimeter of the wall erected around the city in the early fourth century BCE?

2. When did the Roman people vote to expel anyone who had put a citizen to death without trial?

3. When was the Augustan regime said to have begun?

4. How many other burials were in Barbatus's mausoleum?

5. When did Caracall make every free inhabitant of the empire a Roman citizen?

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