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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the symbol of Italy in Chatper 6?
(a) Bull.
(b) Wolf.
(c) Stag.
(d) Lion.

2. According to tradition, how many centuries before 63 BCE had the Temple of Jupiter been established?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

3. When was Polybius in his 30s and taken to Rome as one of 1,000 Greek detainees?
(a) 155 BCE.
(b) 194 BCE.
(c) 172 BCE.
(d) 168 BCE.

4. When did Gaius Sallustius Crispus write about the war against Catiline?
(a) 40s BCE.
(b) 30s BCE.
(c) 50s BCE.
(d) 20s BCE.

5. By the end of the fourth century BCE, how many troops did the Romans probably have?
(a) 600,000.
(b) About 1 million.
(c) 750,000.
(d) Around half a million.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus counsul?

2. To whom did Julius Caesar's family trace their lineage back to?

3. Where did Roman egions defeat Catiline's army of discontents?

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

5. How old was Publilia, Cicero's second wife, when they married?

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