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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Julius Caesar assasinated?
(a) 34 BCE.
(b) 52 BCE.
(c) 29 BCE.
(d) 44 BCE.

2. When were the remains of an early cemetery found underneath the Forum?
(a) 18th century.
(b) 19th century.
(c) End of the 20th century.
(d) Beginning of the 20th century.

3. How old was Publilia, Cicero's second wife, when they married?
(a) 18.
(b) 21.
(c) 23.
(d) 15.

4. Who were Romulus and his citizens fighting at the time when the Temple of Jupiter was said to be established?
(a) Sabines.
(b) Spartacus.
(c) Senones.
(d) Hannibal.

5. When was the first tragedy shown in Rome that Livius Andronicus adapted into Latin from Greek?
(a) 240 BCE.
(b) 224 BCE.
(c) 219 BCE.
(d) 238 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Pliny the Younger leave Italy and travel to Bithynia?

2. Where was the Roman essayist and satirist Lucian from?

3. How much older was Cicero than Publilia when they married?

4. How many of Cicero's letters survived?

5. According to tradition, how many centuries before 63 BCE had the Temple of Jupiter been established?

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