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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old was Publilia, Cicero's second wife, when they married?
(a) 23.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 21.
2. During what time was a high point of Roman literature, art, and culture?
(a) 152 BCE to 44 BCE.
(b) 168 BCE to 44 BCE.
(c) 171 BCE to 44 BCE.
(d) 146 BCE to 44 BCE.
3. When did Rome successfully invade Britain?
(a) 39 CE.
(b) 46 CE.
(c) 43 CE.
(d) 49 CE.
4. How was Tiberius killed in 133 BCE?
(a) Impaled with a sword.
(b) Stabbed with a knife.
(c) Beaten and thrown into the river.
(d) Bludgeoned to death with a chair leg.
5. How many quotations from the poetry of Virgil were scrawled as graffiti on the walls of Pompeii?
(a) More than 50.
(b) About 40.
(c) 47.
(d) 63.
6. When did Vespasian become emperor?
(a) 71 CE.
(b) 68 CE.
(c) 69 CE.
(d) 70 CE.
7. When was Claudius pelted with bread in the Forum?
(a) 59 CE.
(b) 51 CE.
(c) 53 CE.
(d) 55 CE.
8. When did the North African ruler, Jugurtha, begin to extend his control among the Mediterranean coast of Africa?
(a) 86 BCE.
(b) About 118 BCE.
(c) Around 210 BCE.
(d) 94 BCE.
9. In 9 CE, where was there a terrible military disaster?
(a) France.
(b) Africa.
(c) Germany.
(d) Britain.
10. In Roman times, how many of the children born would die by the age of ten?
(a) One fourth.
(b) A third.
(c) Half.
(d) Two-thirds.
11. 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) 1999.
(b) 1993.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2002.
12. What might the population have been in the first two centuries CE?
(a) 65 million.
(b) Between 50 and 60 million.
(c) 35 million.
(d) Around 40 million.
13. When did emperors begin to be portrayed with full beards?
(a) 120 CE.
(b) 118 CE.
(c) Around 115 CE.
(d) After 117 CE.
14. In what city was found a decoration of a bar designed in the second century whose theme was of "The Seven Sages" (471)?
(a) Ostia.
(b) Livorno.
(c) Trieste.
(d) Pozalio.
15. How many doctors were on Livia's staff?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was Gaius acclaimed emperor?
2. How long were Quintus and Pomponia married?
3. According to statistics, how many Roman women were likely to die in childbirth?
4. When was the Augustan regime said to have begun?
5. How long was Cicero married to Terentia?
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