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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did it take to build Vespasian's amphitheater that came to be known as the Colosseum?
(a) 12 years.
(b) About 15 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) Almost 10 years.

2. What was the approximate value of the property that Cicero owned in 45 BCE?
(a) 9 million sesterces.
(b) 17 million sesterces.
(c) 13 million sesterces.
(d) 20 million sesterces.

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

4. What design did Augustus choose for his signet ring?
(a) Scorpion.
(b) Lion.
(c) Bear.
(d) Sphinx.

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

6. When did Cicero's former slave Marcus Tullius Tiro die?
(a) 29 BCE.
(b) 11 BCE.
(c) 4 BCE.
(d) 40 BCE.

7. When did Cicero write about entertaining Caesar for dinner at one of Cicero's seaside estates?
(a) 45 BCE.
(b) 46 BCE.
(c) 46 BCE.
(d) 44 BCE.

8. 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) 2008.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1993.

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

10. In 9 CE, where was there a terrible military disaster?
(a) Germany.
(b) Africa.
(c) Britain.
(d) France.

11. Under which emperor did Pliny the Younger serve as a governor of the province of Bithynia?
(a) Domitian.
(b) Titus.
(c) Trajan.
(d) Nerva.

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

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

14. Before the outbreak of the civil war, how much did Cicero owe Julius Caesar?
(a) 100,000 sesterces.
(b) 2 million sesterces.
(c) 500,000 sesterces.
(d) 1 million sesterces.

15. How many books of Pliny the Younger's letters survived?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lucius Antonius and Fulvia admit defeat?

2. Who did Marcus Aurelius brutally suppress?

3. When did Caesar leave Italy for Gaul for a five-year command that continued on for another five years?

4. When was Claudius pelted with bread in the Forum?

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

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