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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the poet Ovid banished?
(a) 9 CE.
(b) 8 CE.
(c) 15 CE.
(d) 11 CE.

2. When did Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus secure the final defeat of Hannibal?
(a) 202 BCE.
(b) 200 BCE.
(c) 211 BCE.
(d) 209 BCE.

3. How much wheat would the army that the Romans and their allies fielded at Cannae have required daily?
(a) 100 tons.
(b) 75 tons.
(c) 50 tons.
(d) 125 tons.

4. In 63 BCE, who was Catiline accused of murdering?
(a) Grandparents.
(b) First wife and son.
(c) Son and daughter.
(d) Second wife and daughter.

5. Which king's tyrannical behavior was thought to have led to the established of the free Republic of Rome?
(a) Tarquinius Priscus.
(b) Servius Tullius.
(c) Tarquin the Proud.
(d) Ancus Marcius.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the remains of an early cemetery found underneath the Forum?

2. When was an essay by a Roman doctor found in a Greek monastery?

3. How many people lived in Rome in 63 BCE?

4. In 63 BCE, who gave Cicero intelligence regarding a violent plot?

5. When did Cicero arrange for the First Catilinarian to be copied?

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