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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far was Corinth from Carthage?
(a) 900 miles.
(b) 845 miles.
(c) Nearly 1,000 miles.
(d) About 750 miles.

2. When did a law prohibit senators from owning large trading ships?
(a) 1st century BCE.
(b) Late 3rd century BCE.
(c) 2nd century BCE.
(d) Early 2nd century BCE.

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

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

5. When did the first permanent Roman stone theater open?
(a) 61 BCE.
(b) 78 BCE.
(c) 48 BCE.
(d) 55 BCE.

6. What interest rate did Marcus Junius Brutus charge the people of Salamis when he lent money?
(a) 36 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 48 percent.
(d) 18 percent.

7. In the ruins of Pompeii, when was a statue found that had an inscription indicating that it was a gift of Lucius Mummius, son of Lucius, consul?
(a) 1993.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2008.
(d) 1999.

8. When did Pompey the Great triumph over King Mithradates VI of Pontus?
(a) 60 BCE.
(b) 67 BCE.
(c) 61 BCE.
(d) 64 BCE.

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

10. To qualify as a local counselor, how many roof tiles did the man's house have to have?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 900.
(d) 750.

11. How long were Quintus and Pomponia married?
(a) 18 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 27 years.
(d) 11 years.

12. How old was Claudius when he was declared emperor?
(a) 50.
(b) 39.
(c) 45.
(d) 58.

13. In Roman times, how many of the children born would die by the age of ten?
(a) Two-thirds.
(b) Half.
(c) A third.
(d) One fourth.

14. After Trajan was named emperor, how long was it before he returned to Rome from Germany?
(a) 6 months.
(b) More than a year.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 2 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the third century CE, how many petitions did a governor of Egphy receive in just three days?

2. How many Roman emperors were there in almost 200 years?

3. What year did Cicero prosecute Gaius Verres with a case that launched his career?

4. In 66 BCE, how long had the Romans been fighting King Mithradates with little success?

5. How old was August when he died?

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