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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were Cicero's private letters made public?
(a) 43 BCE.
(b) 45 BCE.
(c) 42 BCE.
(d) 44 BCE.

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

3. When was Claudius pelted with bread in the Forum?
(a) 53 CE.
(b) 59 CE.
(c) 55 CE.
(d) 51 CE.

4. When did marauding Gauls occupy Rome?
(a) Around 280 BCE.
(b) Around 390 BCE.
(c) 402 BCE.
(d) 219 BCE.

5. When did Cicero write about entertaining Caesar for dinner at one of Cicero's seaside estates?
(a) 44 BCE.
(b) 45 BCE.
(c) 46 BCE.
(d) 46 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. Near the location of what modern city was Carthage located?

2. When did Caesar's appointed heir, Gaius Octavious arrive in Rome?

3. How long had it been since Gaius succeeded his great-uncle that he was assassinated?

4. In the first BCE, how many books did a scholar devote to a history of Latin?

5. When was Polybius in his 30s and taken to Rome as one of 1,000 Greek detainees?

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