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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Publilia, Cicero's second wife, when they married?
(a) 21.
(b) 18.
(c) 15.
(d) 23.

2. How was Tiberius killed in 133 BCE?
(a) Beaten and thrown into the river.
(b) Impaled with a sword.
(c) Stabbed with a knife.
(d) Bludgeoned to death with a chair leg.

3. What was the name of the sister of Clodius, who was the wife of a senator and the lover of the poet Catullus?
(a) Alypia.
(b) Helvia.
(c) Clodia.
(d) Claudia.

4. When did Rome successfully invade Britain?
(a) 39 CE.
(b) 43 CE.
(c) 49 CE.
(d) 46 CE.

5. How long was Cicero married to Terentia?
(a) 28 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 34 years.
(d) 25 years.

6. During Claudius's rule, how many senators were put to death?
(a) 35.
(b) 24.
(c) 16.
(d) 48.

7. How many volumes was the agricultural encyclopedia that Aemilianus saved from the flames when Carthage fell?
(a) 28.
(b) 18.
(c) 24.
(d) 12.

8. When did a law prohibit senators from owning large trading ships?
(a) Early 2nd century BCE.
(b) 2nd century BCE.
(c) Late 3rd century BCE.
(d) 1st century BCE.

9. What emperor spent a great deal of time as a tourist and was abroad more than at home?
(a) Hadrian.
(b) Tiberius.
(c) Vespasian.
(d) CLaudius.

10. When was Caesar elected consul?
(a) 51 BCE.
(b) 58 BCE.
(c) 54 BCE.
(d) 59 BCE.

11. When was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus assassinated?
(a) 38 CE.
(b) 40 CE.
(c) 41 CE.
(d) 39 CE.

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

13. When did the first permanent Roman stone theater open?
(a) 78 BCE.
(b) 55 BCE.
(c) 61 BCE.
(d) 48 BCE.

14. In what city was found a decoration of a bar designed in the second century whose theme was of "The Seven Sages" (471)?
(a) Ostia.
(b) Pozalio.
(c) Livorno.
(d) Trieste.

15. After Trajan was named emperor, how long was it before he returned to Rome from Germany?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) More than a year.
(d) 6 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. How large did Tiberius propose that landing holdings be in 133 BCE?

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

3. How many quotations from the poetry of Virgil were scrawled as graffiti on the walls of Pompeii?

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

5. 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?

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