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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, The Capture of Rome: Chapter 1, Rome's Capture, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What threat causes the senate to offer debtors a relief from their debts if they agree to serve in the military?
(a) The threat of the Nervians.
(b) The threat of the Batavians.
(c) The threat of the Volscians.
(d) The threat of the Tungrians.

2. How do the senators feel about the practices of the decemvirs?
(a) They do not understand them.
(b) They support them.
(c) They ignore them.
(d) They oppose them.

3. Where do the Roman citizens retreat to after Gaul takes over the city?
(a) Ardea.
(b) Tarquinia.
(c) Caere.
(d) Veii.

4. What is it about Postumia that offends some people?
(a) The way she adorns herself.
(b) Her questionable wealth.
(c) The way she isolates herself.
(d) Her family's reputation.

5. Who does the slave turn the information of the conspiracy over to?
(a) The army.
(b) The people.
(c) The senate.
(d) The consul.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the women stop the first known war between the inhabitants of Rome?

2. What do the Volscians continue to be for Rome during the time of two consuls?

3. What is Circus Maximus?

4. What procedure does Ancus re-institute?

5. What does the group, the Aurunci, consist of?

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