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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Laws keeping women under the authority of her husband are _____ in early Roman history.
(a) Ignored.
(b) Abolished.
(c) Passed.
(d) Upheld.

2. These are used by women extensively in Roman times.
(a) Horses.
(b) Purses.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Cosmetics.

3. Streets are so narrow and dangerous, these are generally banned.
(a) Chariots.
(b) Wheeled vehicles.
(c) Military vehicles.
(d) Horses.

4. This ruler of Rome is convinced he is a god.
(a) Maximus.
(b) Augustus.
(c) Celete.
(d) Caligula.

5. Augustus focuses on creating this form of government.
(a) Republican.
(b) Communist.
(c) Autocratic.
(d) Democratic.

6. These types of buildings are found only in Rome during this period.
(a) Apartments.
(b) Atrium style homes.
(c) Hostels.
(d) Flats.

7. The young aristocratic girls who are responsible for the sacred fire of Vesta, goddess of the hearth, are called:
(a) Vestal priestesses.
(b) Vestal Vipers.
(c) Vestal Virgins.
(d) Vestal vicars.

8. Under this ruler, a land-locked inner basin is built which is linked to the Tiber via a canal.
(a) Trajan.
(b) Othello.
(c) Claudius.
(d) Augustus.

9. The first aqueduct of Rome is the:
(a) Palatine.
(b) Sulla Appia.
(c) Aqua Appia.
(d) Via Appia.

10. Criminal trials are heard by these, whose decisions are binding for all parties.
(a) Judges.
(b) Emporors.
(c) Magistrates.
(d) Senate.

11. Nero and his advisers blame these individuals for a great fire that guts central Rome.
(a) Foreigners.
(b) Haters of Nero.
(c) Jews.
(d) Christians.

12. At the end of the sixth century, this type of government is in place.
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Republican.
(c) Communism.
(d) Democracy.

13. The most important circus in Rome is this.
(a) Circus Flaminius.
(b) Circus Maximus.
(c) Circus Augustus.
(d) Circus Martius.

14. The Theater of Marcellus is dedicated in this time.
(a) 20 or 21 AD.
(b) 20 or 21 BC.
(c) 13 or 11 BC.
(d) 13 or 11 AD.

15. The comedies that have an effect on later Roman comedy are the _____ and the ______.
(a) Campanian farce and the mime.
(b) Phlyakes and the Atellan farce.
(c) Phylakes and the Mime.
(d) Campanian farce and Phylakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The final writer of tragedy plays in Rome is this,

2. The poor, unlike the wealthy, often live in these.

3. This altar is built on the Campus Martius to commemorate the victories of the emperor in Spain.

4. It is under these emperors that Rome comes into its Golden Age.

5. The population of Rome in the 2nd century AD is about this many.

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