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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Roman emperors were there in almost 200 years?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 13.

2. When was Polybius in his 30s and taken to Rome as one of 1,000 Greek detainees?
(a) 172 BCE.
(b) 194 BCE.
(c) 168 BCE.
(d) 155 BCE.

3. How many quotations from the poetry of Virgil were scrawled as graffiti on the walls of Pompeii?
(a) More than 50.
(b) 63.
(c) About 40.
(d) 47.

4. How many legions did Publius Quinctilius Varus lose at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest?
(a) About 4 legions.
(b) 2 legions.
(c) 5 legions.
(d) Most of 3 legions.

5. According to a decree by Augustus, how many children did a freeborn citizen woman have to have before being released from the requirement to have a guardian?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Spartacus command a force of ex-gladiators and runaways?

2. When did Caracall make every free inhabitant of the empire a Roman citizen?

3. When did Alexander the Great lead his Macedonia army on a conquest from Greece to India.

4. What was probably the population of Rome during Barbatus's time?

5. How far was the town where Cicero grew up from Rome?

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