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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Women are penalized if they are not married by this age.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Eighteen.

3. Hairstyles of women vary according to this.
(a) Age and Martial status.
(b) Social status and age.
(c) Social status and religion.
(d) Social status and marital status.

4. The Sacra Via and the Nova Via are the only of these wide enough.
(a) Streets.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Churches.
(d) Sewers.

5. The final writer of tragedy plays in Rome is this,
(a) Secundus.
(b) Pompeii.
(c) Seneca.
(d) Alexander.

6. 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 cannot afford groceries.
(d) Many homes do not have kitchens.

7. Caligula is succeeded by this person, whom many believed is stupid, due to physical ailments.
(a) Maximus.
(b) Claudius.
(c) Celete.
(d) Augustus.

8. Rome's position on the this river provides it with a great defensive posture.
(a) Tiber.
(b) Via Salaria.
(c) Martius.
(d) Palatine.

9. The Hellenised Egyptian goddess ____ also has a cult in Rome.
(a) Isis.
(b) Gelda.
(c) Era.
(d) Mithras.

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

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

12. Formal education of young women in Rome is _____.
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Rare.
(c) Haphazard.
(d) Mandatory.

13. Grain to feed the population comes from here.
(a) South Africa and China.
(b) Egypt and North Africa.
(c) Europe and North America.
(d) Egypt and China.

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

15. This is where all public and political life are conducted.
(a) The Forum.
(b) The Quirnal.
(c) The Palatine.
(d) The Comitium.

Short Answer Questions

1. The only female priesthood of Rome are these.

2. Limestone, brick, and this are standard building materials.

3. Wild beast hunts are commonly staged in the ____________.

4. Streets are so narrow and dangerous, these are generally banned.

5. If found guilty of adultery, the wife and her lover suffer this.

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