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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much older was Cicero than Publilia when they married?
(a) 43 years.
(b) 45 years.
(c) 39 years.
(d) 40 years.

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) Alypia.
(b) Clodia.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Helvia.

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

4. How many other burials were in Barbatus's mausoleum?
(a) About 20.
(b) 35.
(c) 25.
(d) More than 30.

5. When did Cicero decide to join the Pompeians in the civil war?
(a) 50 BCE.
(b) 51 BCE.
(c) 48 BCE.
(d) 49 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to statistics, how many Roman women were likely to die in childbirth?

2. When did Lucius Cornelius Sulla become the first Roman since the mythical Coriolanus to lead his army against the city of Rome?

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

4. How long was the siege when Scipio Aemilianus cut the town off from the sea?

5. When was an inscription found under black stone in the Forum?

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