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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Rome, Pages 150 through 189.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This is the political and legal center of the city of Athens.
(a) The Oracle.
(b) The Agora.
(c) The Long Walls.
(d) The Acropolis.

2. This surrounds the birth of a Roman child.
(a) Superstition.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Anger.
(d) Mystique.

3. This is a typical style of tomb in Rome, as well as in Ostia.
(a) Columbarium.
(b) Colisthania.
(c) There are no tombs.
(d) Colimbaria.

4. Ancient walls around the city are believed to have been built in ____.
(a) Both 5th and 6th century BC.
(b) 5th century BC.
(c) 6th century BC.
(d) 8th century AD.

5. This is the amount sculptors are paid per sculpture for working on the sculptures from the Erechtheum.
(a) 100 drachmae.
(b) 60 drachmae.
(c) 1000 drachmae.
(d) 6000 drachmae.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sophocles and Euripides are considered the best of these.

2. Roman foods are often highly _____.

3. Travelers do not travel at night because of these.

4. These, built in 312 BC, provide a reliable source of water for Romans.

5. There are reportedly no bakers in Rome until after this time.

(see the answer key)

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