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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. How long do the Romans evacuate the city because of the pestilence and illness?
(a) Five years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Four years.

2. What is the crisis that the decemvirs face?
(a) A threat from the people of Rome.
(b) A threat from the military of Rome.
(c) A threat from the senators.
(d) A threat from other cities.

3. What do the leaders have mixed feelings about, as a result of the slaves' revolt?
(a) Arming the people.
(b) Disarming the people.
(c) Imposing a curfew.
(d) Eliminating the curfew.

4. How many Tables are there in the Laws that the Romans propose?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

5. What is used to support the advocates of intermarriage?
(a) The failure of other regions who do not have intermarriage.
(b) The previous integration of other regions by Rome.
(c) The success of intermarriage in other regions.
(d) The previous design of the social classes by Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Postumia described?

2. Where do the senators go as the decemvirs take control of Rome?

3. How many years after the Estrucans and the Sabines fought Rome do the Volscians and the Aequins also position themselves against the city?

4. How is Rome's decision at the end of Rome and the Patricians received?

5. How are the Volscians described in the second part of War & Politics?

Short Essay Questions

1. What innovation is described at the end of War & Politics pertaining to the military and how it is compensated?

2. What happens between two allies of Rome, and how does the city become involved?

3. What is the "solution" that Rome gives its allies, and how is the decision perceived by the people?

4. What are the Etruscans known for, and why is their advice sought?

5. Who do the plebians include, and how are they described?

6. How is the political structure of the Republic described at the end of the first part of War & Politics?

7. What cause does Plato think women should eventually take up and why?

8. What are the Laws of the Ten Tables?

9. What happens after the Laws of the Ten Tables are established?

10. What are the decemvirs?

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