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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Marcus Aurelius brutally suppress?
(a) Egyptians.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Gauls.
(d) Germans.

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

3. How long were Quintus and Pomponia married?
(a) 18 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 27 years.
(d) 11 years.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Pompey when he became a consul in 70 BCE?

2. What year did Cicero prosecute Gaius Verres with a case that launched his career?

3. Under which emperor did Pliny the Younger serve as a governor of the province of Bithynia?

4. During Claudius's rule, how many senators were put to death?

5. When did Rome successfully invade Britain?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did emperors gain their fortunes?

2. Why was there not more social and political conflict than is recorded?

3. What was Gaius Sempronius Gracchus known for doing?

4. What loot did Pompey attain after his victory over King Mithradates VI of Pontus?

5. What was the uprising of Spartacus?

6. What information did Cicero leave, and how has it helped provide insight into Roman history?

7. Why did Cicero serve as a lawyer to prosecute Gaius Verres, and what was the outcome of the case?

8. What was different about the version of citizenship that the Romans invented?

9. What carnage happened after Carthage fell?

10. How was Caesar assassinated?

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