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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Rome, Pages 150 through 189.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Places that serve hot food are important because of this.
(a) Many do not like dining at home.
(b) Many are single, and do not wish to cook for one.
(c) Many homes do not have kitchens.
(d) Many cannot afford groceries.

2. The poor, unlike the wealthy, often live in these.
(a) Barns.
(b) Rented rooms.
(c) The streets.
(d) Local hostels.

3. In 480 BC, a huge army under this Persian king breaks through the Spartan army at Thermopylae, and attacks Athens.
(a) Pisistratus.
(b) Xerxes,
(c) Erechtheus.
(d) Themistocles.

4. What do many Athenians do to unwanted children?
(a) Murder them.
(b) Abort them.
(c) Expose them to the elements to die.
(d) Give them up for adoption.

5. This is the common form of Athenian currency.
(a) Dollirium.
(b) Drachma.
(c) Thesium.
(d) Enchala.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Sacra Via and the Nova Via are the only of these wide enough.

2. Augustus fixes the number of senators at this number.

3. Roman literature indicates this is widespread.

4. This is found on the walls of many houses during the excavations at Olynthus in the 1930s.

5. Under this ruler, a land-locked inner basin is built which is linked to the Tiber via a canal.

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