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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Servius institute while serving as the King of Rome?
(a) A new trade agreement with other countries.
(b) The census.
(c) A limit to what elected officials can earn.
(d) A limit to what the Roman people can earn.

3. What type of republic do the Romans choose their form of government over?
(a) Grecian.
(b) Albanian.
(c) Turkish.
(d) Macedonian.

4. Who are the main perpetrators of the mass hysteria surrounding the battles the Romans fight in?
(a) People who live outside of the city.
(b) People who are actively involved in the battles.
(c) People who live inside of the city.
(d) People who lost friends or relatives in the battles.

5. Why are most of the politicians in Rome oligarchs?
(a) They can afford to invest the time needed.
(b) The city cannot find more than a few people that the Romans would elect.
(c) They tried a political system with many leaders and it did not work.
(d) They have seen how political systems with many leaders in other regions have failed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many generations pass between the pre-history of Rome and the recorded history?

2. How do the Romans use war in the second part of The Republic?

3. What planet's name is given to the temple to a deity?

4. How is the problem of debt described?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Livy's theory of human nature, and how does it relate to Rome?

2. How is a slave given citizenship, according to the story told in Rome as a Republic?

3. How does the war between the creditors and the debtors begin?

4. How long does Romulus rule, and what type of leadership does Pompilius provide?

5. What problems does King Ancus face, and how does he deal with them?

6. How is the war between the Romans and the Aequians waged?

7. How does Tarquin gain power, and who is recognized in removing it from him?

8. What role do the women have in the beginning of Rome?

9. How do the debtors and the citizens of Rome take the law into their own hands after the government proves to be no help with the credit problems?

10. What is the new group of pacifists called, and where do they settle?

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