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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When did the Gauls destroy Rome?
(a) 390 BCE.
(b) 385 BCE.
(c) 393 BCE.
(d) 395 BCE.
2. When did the fire that created the layers of burnt debris excavated in the Forum probably occur?
(a) 509 BCE.
(b) 500 BCE.
(c) 484 BCE.
(d) 499 BCE.
3. When was the poet Ovid banished?
(a) 9 CE.
(b) 11 CE.
(c) 8 CE.
(d) 15 CE.
4. When was Polybius in his 30s and taken to Rome as one of 1,000 Greek detainees?
(a) 168 BCE.
(b) 155 BCE.
(c) 172 BCE.
(d) 194 BCE.
5. How many people lived in Rome in 63 BCE?
(a) 1,250,000.
(b) 984,000.
(c) More than a million.
(d) About half a million.
Short Answer Questions
1. Toward the end of the sixth century BCE by the time the last king was thrown out approximately how many people would have lived in Rome?
2. When was the first tragedy shown in Rome that Livius Andronicus adapted into Latin from Greek?
3. According to tradition, how many centuries before 63 BCE had the Temple of Jupiter been established?
4. When was Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus counsul?
5. What was the perimeter of the wall erected around the city in the early fourth century BCE?
Short Essay Questions
1. What information survives from the first century BCE that can be used to study Rome?
2. What were the 12 tables?
3. According to Roman tradition, when was the Temple of Jupiter established and why?
4. Why is it difficult to find archaeological evidence of Rome?
5. According to Livy, who were the kings of Rome?
6. How did Romulus get women for his city according to Livy?
7. What were the advantages and disadvantages of Rome's location on the Tiber River?
8. How did Cicero portray Catiline, and might there be another side to the story?
9. What was the story of Romulus and Remus?
10. What symbol revealed the change in Rome's relationship with the outside world in the early fourth century BCE?
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