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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the ruins of Pompeii, when was a statue found that had an inscription indicating that it was a gift of Lucius Mummius, son of Lucius, consul?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1999.

2. When did Pliny the Younger leave Italy and travel to Bithynia?
(a) 110 CE.
(b) 105 CE.
(c) 109 CE.
(d) 103 CE.

3. When did Augustus give up on expanding the empire?
(a) 8 CE.
(b) 10 CE.
(c) 7 CE.
(d) 9 CE.

4. How long was the siege when Scipio Aemilianus cut the town off from the sea?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 26 months.
(d) 18 months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During Nero's rule, when was Rome destroyed by fire?

2. When did Cicero's former slave Marcus Tullius Tiro die?

3. When was Julius Caesar assasinated?

4. How many books of Pliny the Younger's letters survived?

5. When did Gnaeus Julius Agricola serve as governor of Britain?

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