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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason given for why parents are eventually allowed to move into Rome?
(a) To increase Rome's population even more.
(b) To be closer to relatives.
(c) To be political advisors.
(d) To contribute to the economy.

2. What procedure does Ancus re-institute?
(a) An election by the senate.
(b) An election by the people.
(c) The declaration of peace.
(d) The declaration of war.

3. What do the people do when creditors attempt to collect repayment in the courts?
(a) They encourage debtors not to attend the court proceedings.
(b) They protest the government by holding big rallies.
(c) They form mobs to protect the debtors.
(d) They file lawsuits against the creditors in retaliation.

4. What are the women asked to disregard pertaining to the men they found themselves with at the start of Rome?
(a) Their attachment.
(b) Their fondness.
(c) Their hatred.
(d) Their resentment.

5. How long did Romulus rule for?
(a) Seventeen years.
(b) Thirty-seven years.
(c) Forty-seven years.
(d) Twenty-seven years.

6. How does Hostilius consider Pompilius's culture to be?
(a) Boring.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Expansive.
(d) Exciting.

7. Which sign do Romulus and Remus become the symbol for?
(a) Leo.
(b) Libra.
(c) Gemini.
(d) Virgo.

8. How does the town of Pometia almost defeat the Romans?
(a) They attack the Romans using domestic devices.
(b) They obtain more advanced weaponry than the Romans.
(c) They outnumber the Romans by a two to one margin.
(d) They surprise the Romans with an army of well trained soldiers.

9. What year does the book, Patricians at Bay begin?
(a) 576 BC.
(b) 567 BC.
(c) 476 BC.
(d) 467 BC.

10. How does Romulus urge the men to treat the women as Rome is beginning to build its population?
(a) Disrespectfully.
(b) Carelessly.
(c) Fearfully.
(d) Respectfully.

11. What does Ancus do to solve the increasing crime problem Rome faces?
(a) He builds the first prison.
(b) He has guards patrol the city.
(c) He imposes a curfew on the city.
(d) He becomes more selective about which cities he takes people from in the future.

12. What does Cloelia do when she is held hostage for the second time?
(a) She oversees the food supply for the hostages.
(b) She oversees a group of girl hostages.
(c) She oversees a group of boy hostages.
(d) She oversees another escape by the hostages.

13. What does the group, the Aurunci, consist of?
(a) More than one town.
(b) More than one country.
(c) Just one country.
(d) Just one town.

14. What condition does Ancus find Rome to be in when he takes over?
(a) Both warlike and peaceful.
(b) Neither warlike nor peaceful.
(c) Mainly warlike.
(d) Mainly peaceful.

15. How was the support of the people viewed by the Kings of early Rome?
(a) As valuable, but not easily attainable.
(b) As a necessity.
(c) As valuable and easily attainable.
(d) As unnecessary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the slave given for his role in preventing the conspiracy?

2. What causes Servilius and Appius to become unpopular with the Romans?

3. How does Livy describe Tarquin's rule over Rome?

4. What is Circus Maximus?

5. What does the great Roman warrior, Valerius, do once he enters politics?

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