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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. How were officials chosen for provinces?
(a) The emperor chose for all provinces.
(b) The Senate chose for peaceful provinces and the emperor for restless ones.
(c) By the praetorian guards.
(d) By the people.

2. Of the following, what was more resented by the people than tax?
(a) The lack of citizenship.
(b) Profiteering tricks.
(c) The emperor's power.
(d) Occupation of the Roman army.

3. Tacitus credited whom for Roman successes?
(a) The Roman people.
(b) The enemies for their own faults.
(c) The governors of the provinces.
(d) The great line of emperors.

4. According to Mattingly, what was most important to Tacitus in his life?
(a) His family.
(b) The reigning emperor.
(c) His career.
(d) His mother.

5. What was Tacitus' relationship to Agricola?
(a) He was Agricola's son-in-law.
(b) He was Agricola's son.
(c) He was Agricola's military right hand man.
(d) They had no direct relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Agricola best known for?

2. Agricola was brought up with an education in __________.

3. When Cerealis became the British governor, how did Agricola prove himself to him?

4. Why was so interested in German culture that he wrote about it?

5. Why did Rome want to conquer Britain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Looking at the lineage of emperors, what did Tacitus notice in regards to choosing an emperor?

2. Who were Titus and Domitian and what was their relationship to the Roman Empire?

3. Describe the Germans judicial system as Tacitus understood it.

4. When Claudius conquered parts of Britain, describe the way the British accepted this turn in history as Tacitus saw it.

5. How did Tacitus compare the living arrangements of the Germans to the Romans?

6. Between "The Agricola" and "The Germania," what seemed most significant to Tacitus? What common underlying theme was observed in both books?

7. How did Tacitus describe Britain when Agricola was first stationed there?

8. What was Tacitus' theory of why the sun did not set in northern Britain?

9. Why did Tacitus believe it was unlikely the Germans were immigrants from elsewhere?

10. Write a brief summary of the common plan that biographies, such as "The Agricola" follows.

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