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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What special privilege did the Hermundui have in the Roman Empire?

2. How did having children help Agricola's career?

3. In addition to omens in a bird's flight, what other ways did Germans read omens and warnings?

4. "The Germania" is believed to come from a single manuscript written in what century?

5. Tacitus criticized the Germans' agriculture calendar because of what?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the strengths of Britain that helped them resist and eventually drive off the Romans, and the weaknesses that allowed the Romans to rule over them for a certain period.

Essay Topic 2

"The Agricola" is a "portrait of a career," according to Mattingly. How is this appropriate as a biography for both the writer Tacitus and the subject Agricola?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the German tribes. How were each culturally the same or different? What were some factors that lend to the similarities and differences?

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