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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Claudius pelted with bread in the Forum?
(a) 55 CE.
(b) 53 CE.
(c) 51 CE.
(d) 59 CE.

2. Who did Marcus Aurelius brutally suppress?
(a) Gauls.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Germans.
(d) Egyptians.

3. How large did Tiberius propose that landing holdings be in 133 BCE?
(a) 200 hectares.
(b) About 115 hectares.
(c) Roughly 120 hectares.
(d) 175 hectares.

4. How long was the siege when Scipio Aemilianus cut the town off from the sea?
(a) 26 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 2 years.

5. In 45 BCE, about how many properties did Cicero own in Italy?
(a) 20.
(b) 18.
(c) 27.
(d) 30.

6. How many occupations were there in the city of Rome alone?
(a) 95.
(b) 150.
(c) 100.
(d) 200.

7. When did emperors begin to be portrayed with full beards?
(a) 120 CE.
(b) Around 115 CE.
(c) After 117 CE.
(d) 118 CE.

8. When did the North African ruler, Jugurtha, begin to extend his control among the Mediterranean coast of Africa?
(a) 94 BCE.
(b) About 118 BCE.
(c) Around 210 BCE.
(d) 86 BCE.

9. When did Vespasian become emperor?
(a) 69 CE.
(b) 71 CE.
(c) 68 CE.
(d) 70 CE.

10. When did Octavian become known as Augustus?
(a) 31 BCE.
(b) 39 BCE.
(c) 27 BCE.
(d) 20 BCE.

11. In what city was found a decoration of a bar designed in the second century whose theme was of "The Seven Sages" (471)?
(a) Pozalio.
(b) Ostia.
(c) Livorno.
(d) Trieste.

12. How many doctors were on Livia's staff?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

13. How old was August when he died?
(a) 75.
(b) 79.
(c) 66.
(d) 64.

14. How old was Publilia, Cicero's second wife, when they married?
(a) 21.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 23.

15. When was the Augustan regime said to have begun?
(a) 31 BCE.
(b) 28 BCE.
(c) 29 BCE.
(d) 33 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. During Claudius's rule, how many senators were put to death?

2. When was Cicero governor of Cilicia?

3. How long had it been since Gaius succeeded his great-uncle that he was assassinated?

4. When did Caesar's appointed heir, Gaius Octavious arrive in Rome?

5. When did Cicero's former slave Marcus Tullius Tiro die?

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