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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. In 9 CE, where was there a terrible military disaster?

2. What might the population have been in the first two centuries CE?

3. In Chapter 6, when was a full census carried out?

4. When did Lucius Cornelius Sulla become the first Roman since the mythical Coriolanus to lead his army against the city of Rome?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What contribution did Caesar make to timekeeping?

2. How did emperors gain their fortunes?

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

4. How did Cicero describe the time when he entertained Caesar for dinner in one of his seaside estates?

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

6. How did Augustus die?

7. How did Gibbon characterize emperors in his history?

8. How was Caesar assassinated?

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Beard begins her book with the assertion that “Ancient Rome is important” (15). Why does Beard believe that Ancient Rome is important?

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