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

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

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

4. How long were Quintus and Pomponia married?
(a) 11 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 18 years.
(d) 27 years.

5. What emperor spent a great deal of time as a tourist and was abroad more than at home?
(a) Hadrian.
(b) Tiberius.
(c) Vespasian.
(d) CLaudius.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Octavian become known as Augustus?

3. Before the outbreak of the civil war, how much did Cicero owe Julius Caesar?

4. When was the fire where Galen lost the contents of his lock-up storeroom near the Forum?

5. Who did Marcus Aurelius brutally suppress?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Augustus die?

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

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

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

5. Who was Gaius?

6. How did emperors gain their fortunes?

7. What carnage happened after Carthage fell?

8. What property did Cicero own, and how wealthy was he?

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

10. Why did Cicero serve as a lawyer to prosecute Gaius Verres, and what was the outcome of the case?

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