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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. How did Augustus handle the Germans?
(a) He advanced over the Rhine.
(b) He advanced to the Elbe.
(c) He ignored their presence and concentrated on Britain.
(d) He kept them at the Rhine.

2. Of the following, what was more resented by the people than tax?
(a) Profiteering tricks.
(b) Occupation of the Roman army.
(c) The lack of citizenship.
(d) The emperor's power.

3. How did Agricola's successes become so famous?
(a) Trajan wrote a famous eulogy.
(b) Via Domitian's excessive praise.
(c) The number of archaelogical evidence of his forts.
(d) Through Tacitus' writings.

4. What was Agricola best known for?
(a) His oratory skills.
(b) His tactics and forts.
(c) His diplomatic skills.
(d) His ability to execute a surprise attack.

5. Before Tacitus' time, a person who wrote an autobiography was considered to be__________.
(a) Insecure.
(b) Not worth reading about.
(c) Egocentric.
(d) Self-confident.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Domitian receive news of Agricola's successes?

2. Agricola called on whose help to equalize the sword fighting skills of the British?

3. How did Agricola's arrival in Britain differ from the usual arrival of a new governor?

4. Of the following, which title did Tacitus never hold?

5. Where did Agricola primarily spend his time in the military?

Short Essay Questions

1. "The Germania" is the study of what in particular? Why was Tacitus so concerned?

2. Describe how Tacitus wrote about Agricola's role as a military apprentice under Suetonius Paulinus.

3. Write a brief summary of the common plan that biographies, such as "The Agricola" follows.

4. Tacitus believed what was the general custom concerning the dead in Germany?

5. What are some of Mattingly's criticisms of Tacitus' works as a historian?

6. Tacitus claimed Germans felt what way about materials such as gold and silver?

7. Compare the role of women in German warfare to women in Roman warfare as Tacitus described it.

8. What did "civilization" mean to Tacitus?

9. When Claudius conquered parts of Britain, describe the way the British accepted this turn in history as Tacitus saw it.

10. Describe reasons why the British believed "peacetime" under Roman rule was equivalent to slavery.

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