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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were painting discovered in a tomb that depicted exploits of Servius Tullius?
(a) Lombardy.
(b) Vulci.
(c) Umbria.
(d) Liguria.

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

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

4. In 63 BCE, when did Catline and Cicero go before the senate?
(a) November 21.
(b) November 3.
(c) November 8.
(d) November 1.

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

6. When did the Roman people vote to expel anyone who had put a citizen to death without trial?
(a) 58 BCE.
(b) 54 BCE.
(c) 60 BCE.
(d) 57 BCE.

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

8. When was the Second Punic War?
(a) 190 to 184 BCE.
(b) 264 to 241 BCE.
(c) 220 to 190 BCE.
(d) 218 to 201 BCE.

9. Because of debt, when did the plebeians stage the first of several mass walkouts from the city?
(a) 486 BCE.
(b) 488 BCE.
(c) 490 BCE.
(d) 494 BCE.

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

11. When was the first aqueduct to bring water into Rome constructed?
(a) 312 BCE.
(b) 319 BCE.
(c) 411 BCE.
(d) 294 BCE.

12. How many people lived in Rome in 63 BCE?
(a) More than a million.
(b) 984,000.
(c) About half a million.
(d) 1,250,000.

13. When was the Septimontium festival held yearly?
(a) September.
(b) October.
(c) November.
(d) December.

14. In Chapter 3, within what radius of Rome were heroic battles fought?
(a) 12 miles.
(b) 11 miles.
(c) 9 miles.
(d) 17 miles.

15. When did European cities begin to reach a million inhabitants?
(a) 16th century.
(b) 17th century.
(c) 19th century.
(d) 18th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Spartacus command a force of ex-gladiators and runaways?

2. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 1?

3. Which king's tyrannical behavior was thought to have led to the established of the free Republic of Rome?

4. What was the name of the Sabine king when the Romans battled the Sabines?

5. Toward the end of the sixth century BCE by the time the last king was thrown out approximately how many people would have lived in Rome?

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