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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the poet Ovid banished?
(a) 9 CE.
(b) 8 CE.
(c) 11 CE.
(d) 15 CE.

2. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) 45 BCE.
(b) 56 BCE.
(c) 72 BCE.
(d) 63 BCE.

3. On what hill did Romulus choose to found the city of Rome?
(a) Aventine.
(b) Caelian.
(c) Palatine.
(d) Quirinal.

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

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

6. How many captives did ancient writers say were taken during the First Punic War?
(a) 150,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 125,000.
(d) 100,000.

7. When did Cicero dodge an assassination attempt in 63 BCE?
(a) September 30.
(b) October 11.
(c) November 7.
(d) December 3.

8. When did Alexander the Great lead his Macedonia army on a conquest from Greece to India.
(a) 300 to 318 BCE.
(b) 339 BCE to 327 BCE.
(c) 315 BCE to 290 BCE.
(d) 334 to 323 BCE.

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

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

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

12. In southern Italy, from what people did Barbatus take two towns?
(a) Histri.
(b) Mentores.
(c) Catari.
(d) Samnites.

13. By the end of the fourth century BCE, how many troops did the Romans probably have?
(a) 600,000.
(b) About 1 million.
(c) Around half a million.
(d) 750,000.

14. When was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus supposed to have returned from semi-exile to become dictator and lead Roman armies to victory?
(a) 430s BCE.
(b) 420s BCE.
(c) 440s BCE.
(d) 450s BCE.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many "books" (42) comprised Livy's history of Rome?

2. When was Polybius in his 30s and taken to Rome as one of 1,000 Greek detainees?

3. When did the Gauls destroy Rome?

4. How much wheat would the army that the Romans and their allies fielded at Cannae have required daily?

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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