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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. What was the symbol of Italy in Chatper 6?
(a) Lion.
(b) Wolf.
(c) Bull.
(d) Stag.

2. How many volumes was the agricultural encyclopedia that Aemilianus saved from the flames when Carthage fell?
(a) 24.
(b) 28.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

3. What interest rate did Marcus Junius Brutus charge the people of Salamis when he lent money?
(a) 18 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 48 percent.
(d) 36 percent.

4. How old was August when he died?
(a) 79.
(b) 75.
(c) 64.
(d) 66.

5. In Roman times, how many of the children born would die by the age of ten?
(a) A third.
(b) Half.
(c) One fourth.
(d) Two-thirds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What design did Augustus choose for his signet ring?

2. When did emperors begin to be portrayed with full beards?

3. What year did Cicero prosecute Gaius Verres with a case that launched his career?

4. When did a law prohibit senators from owning large trading ships?

5. Near the location of what modern city was Carthage located?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the biggest killer of young adult women from Rome and why?

4. Who was Caesar's heir?

5. What was Corinth and how was it defeated by the Romans?

6. What loot did Pompey attain after his victory over King Mithradates VI of Pontus?

7. What was the uprising of Spartacus?

8. What was different about the version of citizenship that the Romans invented?

9. How was Caesar assassinated?

10. What carnage happened after Carthage fell?

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