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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) 56 BCE.
(b) 72 BCE.
(c) 63 BCE.
(d) 45 BCE.

2. Who was given credit for establishing a calendar and annual roster of festivals, holy days, and holidays?
(a) Tullus.
(b) Numa.
(c) Tarquin.
(d) Tarquinius.

3. When was the first major Roman road, the Via Appia, built?
(a) 309 BCE.
(b) 312 BCE.
(c) 319 BCE.
(d) 300 BCE.

4. Toward the end of the sixth century BCE by the time the last king was thrown out approximately how many people would have lived in Rome?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 20,000 to 30,000.
(c) 15,000 to 20,000.
(d) 18,000.

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

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

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

8. How far back might excavations under modern Rome over the last 100 years have unearthed?
(a) 500 BCE.
(b) 700 BCE.
(c) 1000 BCE.
(d) 850 BCE.

9. When was an inscription found under black stone in the Forum?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1899.

10. When was Rome determined to have been founded?
(a) April 21, 753 BCE.
(b) April 30, 749 BCE.
(c) April 9, 752 BCE.
(d) April 18, 743 BCE.

11. When was the Second Punic War?
(a) 218 to 201 BCE.
(b) 264 to 241 BCE.
(c) 190 to 184 BCE.
(d) 220 to 190 BCE.

12. According to tradition, how many centuries before 63 BCE had the Temple of Jupiter been established?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

13. To whom did Julius Caesar's family trace their lineage back to?
(a) God Mars.
(b) Goddess Fortuna.
(c) God Apollo.
(d) Goddess Venus.

14. When did Cicero arrange for the First Catilinarian to be copied?
(a) July 61 BCE.
(b) May 59 BCE.
(c) April 58 BCE.
(d) June 60 BCE.

15. When did Alexander the Great lead his Macedonia army on a conquest from Greece to India.
(a) 300 to 318 BCE.
(b) 334 to 323 BCE.
(c) 315 BCE to 290 BCE.
(d) 339 BCE to 327 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of the fourth century BCE, how many troops did the Romans probably have?

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

3. In southern Italy, from what people did Barbatus take two towns?

4. What animal was said to have nurtured Remus and Romulus?

5. When did the Gauls destroy Rome?

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