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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language was the inscription written in that was found under black stone in the Forum?
(a) Greek.
(b) Sumerian.
(c) Coptic.
(d) Latin.

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

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

4. 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) 450s BCE.
(d) 440s BCE.

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

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

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

8. When was the battle that Barbatus fought in that defeated an Italian army at Sentinum?
(a) 291 BCE.
(b) 293 BCE.
(c) 290 BCE.
(d) 295 BCE.

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

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

11. How far back might excavations under modern Rome over the last 100 years have unearthed?
(a) 500 BCE.
(b) 1000 BCE.
(c) 850 BCE.
(d) 700 BCE.

12. When was Rome determined to have been founded?
(a) April 30, 749 BCE.
(b) April 21, 753 BCE.
(c) April 18, 743 BCE.
(d) April 9, 752 BCE.

13. In 63 BCE, who was Catiline accused of murdering?
(a) Son and daughter.
(b) First wife and son.
(c) Second wife and daughter.
(d) Grandparents.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Cicero dodge an assassination attempt in 63 BCE?

2. How many other burials were in Barbatus's mausoleum?

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

4. According to stories, when did the first barbers start to work in Rome?

5. To whom did Julius Caesar's family trace their lineage back to?

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