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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 15,000 to 20,000.
(c) 18,000.
(d) 20,000 to 30,000.

3. Who was the Roman senator who wrote the first history of Rome?
(a) Livy.
(b) Fabius Pictor.
(c) Duris.
(d) Polybius.

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

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

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

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

8. During the Battle of Cannae in 216 BCE, how many deaths were there in a single afternoon?
(a) About 50,000.
(b) Up to 70,000.
(c) 98,000.
(d) 64,000.

9. Which king's tyrannical behavior was thought to have led to the established of the free Republic of Rome?
(a) Ancus Marcius.
(b) Tarquinius Priscus.
(c) Servius Tullius.
(d) Tarquin the Proud.

10. When did Hannibal cross the Alps and inflict terrible loses on the Romans?
(a) 279 BCE.
(b) 191 BCE.
(c) 311 BCE.
(d) 218 BCE.

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

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

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

14. How old were Catline and Cicero when they faced off before the senate in 63 BCE?
(a) 40s.
(b) 50s.
(c) 60s.
(d) 30s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 63 BCE, who was Catiline accused of murdering?

2. When was an inscription found under black stone in the Forum?

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

4. If the information about seven kings is correct, how long would each of them have reigned?

5. In Chapter 3, within what radius of Rome were heroic battles fought?

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