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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. How many doctors were on Livia's staff?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

2. In 53 BCE, how much did Clodius pay for the house of Marcus Aemilius Scaurus?
(a) 11 million sesterces.
(b) Almost 15 million sesterces.
(c) 3 million sesterces.
(d) About 5 million sesterces.

3. How large did Tiberius propose that landing holdings be in 133 BCE?
(a) 175 hectares.
(b) Roughly 120 hectares.
(c) About 115 hectares.
(d) 200 hectares.

4. In the third century CE, how many petitions did a governor of Egphy receive in just three days?
(a) 1,100.
(b) 1,800.
(c) 700.
(d) 900.

5. When was Cicero governor of Cilicia?
(a) Late 50s BCE.
(b) 65 BCE.
(c) 59 BCE.
(d) Early 40s BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were Cicero's private letters made public?

2. How many occupations were there in the city of Rome alone?

3. When did Cicero's former slave Marcus Tullius Tiro die?

4. How many volumes was the agricultural encyclopedia that Aemilianus saved from the flames when Carthage fell?

5. During Claudius's rule, how many senators were put to death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What carnage happened after Carthage fell?

2. What contribution did Caesar make to timekeeping?

3. Why could money not protect the rich from the discomforts and harsher sides of ancient life?

4. Who was Caesar's heir?

5. What law was a part of Gaius Gracchus's reform program?

6. How was Roman marriage a simple and private business?

7. What was the uprising of Spartacus?

8. Why did members of the imperial family often finds themselves in perilous positions?

9. How was Caesar assassinated?

10. What information did Cicero leave, and how has it helped provide insight into Roman history?

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