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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many books of Pliny the Younger's letters survived?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

2. In the ruins of Pompeii, when was a statue found that had an inscription indicating that it was a gift of Lucius Mummius, son of Lucius, consul?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1993.

3. By the end of the fourth century BCE, how many troops did the Romans probably have?
(a) 750,000.
(b) Around half a million.
(c) 600,000.
(d) About 1 million.

4. In 45 BCE, about how many properties did Cicero own in Italy?
(a) 20.
(b) 18.
(c) 27.
(d) 30.

5. When was Sulla elected consul?
(a) 88 BCE.
(b) 84 BCE.
(c) 85 BCE.
(d) 81 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the symbol of Italy in Chatper 6?

2. In the history of Athens, what were the most inhabitants that the city had?

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

4. When did marauding Gauls occupy Rome?

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

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