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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the Sabine king when the Romans battled the Sabines?
(a) Titus Tatius.
(b) Ancus Marcius.
(c) Quintus Sertorius.
(d) Numa Pompilius.

3. How large was Rome's overseas empire?
(a) About 3 million square miles.
(b) 2.5 million square miles.
(c) 1.5 million square miles.
(d) More than 2 million square miles.

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

5. Who was given credit for establishing a calendar and annual roster of festivals, holy days, and holidays?
(a) Tarquin.
(b) Tarquinius.
(c) Numa.
(d) Tullus.

6. If the information about seven kings is correct, how long would each of them have reigned?
(a) About 2 decades.
(b) More than 3 decades.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 15 years.

7. On what river is Rome?
(a) Tiber.
(b) Ofanto.
(c) Rubicon.
(d) Po.

8. How much wheat would the army that the Romans and their allies fielded at Cannae have required daily?
(a) 125 tons.
(b) 75 tons.
(c) 100 tons.
(d) 50 tons.

9. How far was the town where Cicero grew up from Rome?
(a) 57 miles.
(b) About 70 miles.
(c) Around 80 miles.
(d) 65 miles.

10. When was Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus counsul?
(a) 296 BCE.
(b) 298 BCE.
(c) 279 BCE.
(d) 281 BCE.

11. How many of Cicero's letters survived?
(a) 1,100.
(b) About 1,200.
(c) 930.
(d) Almost 1,000.

12. Where did Roman egions defeat Catiline's army of discontents?
(a) Western Italy.
(b) South Italy.
(c) North Italy.
(d) Eastern Italy.

13. To whom did Julius Caesar's family trace their lineage back to?
(a) Goddess Fortuna.
(b) God Apollo.
(c) God Mars.
(d) Goddess Venus.

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

15. When did Constantine convert to Christianity?
(a) 341 CE.
(b) 337 CE.
(c) 319 CE.
(d) 326 CE.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language was the inscription written in that was found under black stone in the Forum?

2. When did Hannibal cross the Alps and inflict terrible loses on the Romans?

3. When did marauding Gauls occupy Rome?

4. When did Cicero arrange for the First Catilinarian to be copied?

5. When did Hungarian protesters use one of Cicero's phrases to protest the rewrite of the constitution?

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