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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Disciplina Augusta, 211-233.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After discussing Trajan's perilous position as he finds enemies on all sides, Hadrian notes that Trajan wastes an entire winter in the siege of which desert fortress?
(a) Cyrene.
(b) Seleucia.
(c) Hatra.
(d) Edessa.

2. When Hadrian presses Antinous to pick a tutor, the boy chooses which of the following individuals?
(a) Euphrates.
(b) Aristomenes.
(c) Demonax.
(d) Chabrias.

3. At which city does Hadrian meet with a nameless priestess when he begins plans to establish the cult of Antinous?
(a) Decelea.
(b) Eleusis.
(c) Aegina.
(d) Corinth.

4. After Antinous decides on a tutor, Hadrian says that which of the following individuals, a Stoic philosopher, asks his permission to retire from service by suicide?
(a) Demonax.
(b) Aristomenes.
(c) Euphrates.
(d) Chabrias.

5. While vising Chaeronea, Hadrian spends two days as the guest of which of the following famous Greek philosophers and writers?
(a) Pythagoras.
(b) Plutarch.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward the end of "Saeculum Aureum, 153-171," Hadrian mentions that which of the following individuals has died?

2. Hadrian returns to Rome after he leaves Greece in "Disciplina Augusta, 211-233" and writes which document to codify the administration of Italy?

3. As "Saeculum Aureum, 153-171" opens, Hadrian has passed the summer in which area?

4. When Hadrian and Antinous make their way to Mantinea they find that the temple to which god has fallen into ruins?

5. During his travels in Greece, Hadrian mentions seeing the spaces for statues in sanctuaries left empty by the theft of which emperor?

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