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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapers 8-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did European cities begin to reach a million inhabitants?
(a) 19th century.
(b) 16th century.
(c) 18th century.
(d) 17th century.

2. What interest rate did Marcus Junius Brutus charge the people of Salamis when he lent money?
(a) 36 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 48 percent.
(d) 18 percent.

3. Who was the Roman senator who wrote the first history of Rome?
(a) Livy.
(b) Duris.
(c) Polybius.
(d) Fabius Pictor.

4. How large was Rome's overseas empire?
(a) About 3 million square miles.
(b) More than 2 million square miles.
(c) 1.5 million square miles.
(d) 2.5 million square miles.

5. How long were Quintus and Pomponia married?
(a) 27 years.
(b) 11 years.
(c) 18 years.
(d) 25 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the sister of Clodius, who was the wife of a senator and the lover of the poet Catullus?

2. How old was Gaius Octavious when Julius Caesar was assassinated?

3. What language was the inscription written in that was found under black stone in the Forum?

4. During what time was a high point of Roman literature, art, and culture?

5. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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