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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long was Cicero married to Terentia?
(a) 34 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 28 years.

2. 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) 63.
(d) 47.

3. 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) 2008.
(b) 1993.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1999.

4. According to statistics, how many Roman women were likely to die in childbirth?
(a) 2 in 25.
(b) 1 in 75.
(c) 1 in 50.
(d) 2 in 100.

5. In Chapter 6, when was a full census carried out?
(a) 55 BCE.
(b) 70 BCE.
(c) 65 BCE.
(d) 60 BCE.

6. When did Cicero decide to join the Pompeians in the civil war?
(a) 48 BCE.
(b) 51 BCE.
(c) 49 BCE.
(d) 50 BCE.

7. What was the name of Caesar's daughter whom Pompey married?
(a) Fausta.
(b) Marciana.
(c) Domitia.
(d) Julia.

8. What was the name of the sister of Clodius, who was the wife of a senator and the lover of the poet Catullus?
(a) Helvia.
(b) Claudia.
(c) Alypia.
(d) Clodia.

9. During Nero's rule, when was Rome destroyed by fire?
(a) 64 CE.
(b) 53 CE.
(c) 61 CE.
(d) 59 CE.

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

11. When did Rome successfully invade Britain?
(a) 49 CE.
(b) 46 CE.
(c) 39 CE.
(d) 43 CE.

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

13. In 66 BCE, how long had the Romans been fighting King Mithradates with little success?
(a) 11 years.
(b) About 15 years.
(c) More than 20 years.
(d) 18 years.

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

15. How long had it been since Gaius succeeded his great-uncle that he was assassinated?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 11 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Pompey when he became a consul in 70 BCE?

2. According to a decree by Augustus, how many children did a freeborn citizen woman have to have before being released from the requirement to have a guardian?

3. How much of the city was it said that Nero's Golden House covered?

4. How far was Corinth from Carthage?

5. In Roman times, how many of the children born would die by the age of ten?

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