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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did the people of Fregellae attempt to break away from Rome, but were crushed by a Roman army led by Lucius Opimius?
2. During Nero's rule, when was Rome destroyed by fire?
3. How old was Gaius Octavious when Julius Caesar was assassinated?
4. When did Cicero write about entertaining Caesar for dinner at one of Cicero's seaside estates?
5. When did emperors begin to be portrayed with full beards?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Augustus die?
2. How was Roman marriage a simple and private business?
3. Who was Pliny the Younger?
4. Why was there not more social and political conflict than is recorded?
5. Why did Cicero serve as a lawyer to prosecute Gaius Verres, and what was the outcome of the case?
6. What was the biggest killer of young adult women from Rome and why?
7. What law was a part of Gaius Gracchus's reform program?
8. How was Caesar assassinated?
9. What was the uprising of Spartacus?
10. What does the portrayal of Nero by modern historians demonstrate about history?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Citizenship is the relationship between an individual and a state or country. How did Rome invent a new version of citizenship? How did Romans change the way that citizenship was viewed?
Essay Topic 2
Much of the information about the Conspiracy of Catiline is from information his rival, Cicero, provided. What type of narrator might Cicero have been when relating the incidents with Catiline? Why are there limitations of the source materials about the Catiline Conspiracy from Cicero and why might they not be entirely trustworthy?
Essay Topic 3
Augustus became emperor after Caesar. How did Augustus become emperor after Caesar? What does his rise to power convey about the establishment of autocratic rule in Rome?
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