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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. Who did Marcus Aurelius brutally suppress?

2. When did the first permanent Roman stone theater open?

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

4. What was the name of the sister of Clodius, who was the wife of a senator and the lover of the poet Catullus?

5. To qualify as a local counselor, how many roof tiles did the man's house have to have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What contribution did Caesar make to timekeeping?

2. How did Augustus die?

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

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

5. Why was there not more social and political conflict than is recorded?

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

7. Who was Caesar's heir?

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

9. What was the uprising of Spartacus?

10. How was Caesar assassinated?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Beard comments that the history of Rome has changed in the 50 years prior to when she wrote the book. How has Roman history changed? Why does history change?

Essay Topic 2

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not historical fiction?

Essay Topic 3

Rome had no system of primogeniture. How does primogeniture help resolve issues of succession? Did Rome have a system of succession? What were the challenges of succession for emperors?

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