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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Hungarian protesters use one of Cicero's phrases to protest the rewrite of the constitution?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2009.

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

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

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

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

6. How many "books" (42) comprised Livy's history of Rome?
(a) 142.
(b) 127.
(c) 115.
(d) 138.

7. How many elephants did Hannibal use when he crossed the Alps?
(a) 48.
(b) 26.
(c) 37.
(d) 19.

8. When did Caracall make every free inhabitant of the empire a Roman citizen?
(a) 198 CE.
(b) 191 CE.
(c) 204 CE.
(d) 212 CE.

9. When did Cicero arrange for the First Catilinarian to be copied?
(a) June 60 BCE.
(b) April 58 BCE.
(c) July 61 BCE.
(d) May 59 BCE.

10. When was an essay by a Roman doctor found in a Greek monastery?
(a) 2010.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2005.
(d) 1990.

11. In 63 BCE, who gave Cicero intelligence regarding a violent plot?
(a) Livia.
(b) Fulvia.
(c) Aelina.
(d) Cornelia.

12. Who was it said was the father of Romulus in Chapter 2?
(a) Vulcan.
(b) Mars.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Saturn.

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

14. When Aemilius Paullus returned in 167 BCE from his victory over King Perseus, how long did it take to trundle all of the loot through Rome?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 4 days.

15. According to stories, when did the first barbers start to work in Rome?
(a) 325 BCE.
(b) 300 BCE.
(c) 305 BCE.
(d) 315 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far back might excavations under modern Rome over the last 100 years have unearthed?

2. How many young women were estimated to be taken during a religious festival Romulus held?

3. When was the first tragedy shown in Rome that Livius Andronicus adapted into Latin from Greek?

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

5. When was the first major Roman road, the Via Appia, built?

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