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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 marauding Gauls occupy Rome?
(a) 402 BCE.
(b) Around 390 BCE.
(c) Around 280 BCE.
(d) 219 BCE.

2. When did Lucius Antonius and Fulvia admit defeat?
(a) Late 39 BCE.
(b) Early 40 BCE.
(c) 37 BCE.
(d) 36 BCE.

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

4. When was the battle that Barbatus fought in that defeated an Italian army at Sentinum?
(a) 295 BCE.
(b) 293 BCE.
(c) 290 BCE.
(d) 291 BCE.

5. How old was Gaius Octavious when Julius Caesar was assassinated?
(a) 18.
(b) 20.
(c) 19.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hungarian protesters use one of Cicero's phrases to protest the rewrite of the constitution?

2. In Roman times, how many of the children born would die by the age of ten?

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

4. In the first BCE, how many books did a scholar devote to a history of Latin?

5. When was Caesar elected consul?

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