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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 is Caeso Quinctius's opinion of the consuls?
(a) He defends them.
(b) He eliminates them.
(c) He tries to add mroe consuls to the senate.
(d) He tries to replace them with the tribunes.

2. What role do the decemvirs have in the Republic at the start of the fourth book?
(a) They have been forced to serve in the military.
(b) They have been removed.
(c) They have been reduced to working men.
(d) They have been demoted.

3. What introduces the idea of different classes being allowed to marry?
(a) A petition by the people.
(b) A new legislation.
(c) Pressures from other regions.
(d) A protest by the people.

4. What is the role of the tribunes?
(a) They are against the senate.
(b) They are for the senate.
(c) They are against the common people.
(d) They are against the consul.

5. What are the people chastised for after the rule of the decemvirs ends?
(a) Contributing to Rome's political problems.
(b) Supporting the decemvirs.
(c) Contributing to Rome's economic problems.
(d) Following the decemvirs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the government featured a strong military contingent?

2. What part of Livy's tone is consistent throughout the book?

3. What does Rome's decision in Chapter 3 of Rome and the Patricians illustrate?

4. What is the conspiracy that is mentioned at the end of the first section in War & Politics?

5. What do the allies hope Rome will provide for them in their dispute?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Postumius do to cause his soldiers to turn against him, and what is the controversy surrounding his death?

2. What are the decemvirs?

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

4. What is the main problem the decemvirs are having and why?

5. What are both sides of the intermarriage debate Rome faces?

6. How do the slaves revolt, what is the senate's response, and how is the problem resolved?

7. How long does the pestilence and illness last, and what effect does it have on Rome?

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

9. What is Veii now considered to the Romans, and how does Rome plan on dealing with the situation?

10. What is the goal of the Roman military as they begin the war with Veii, and how do they attempt to meet it?

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