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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Criminal trials are heard by these, whose decisions are binding for all parties.
(a) Judges.
(b) Magistrates.
(c) Senate.
(d) Emporors.

2. Laws keeping women under the authority of her husband are _____ in early Roman history.
(a) Ignored.
(b) Passed.
(c) Abolished.
(d) Upheld.

3. Travelers do not travel at night because of these.
(a) Wild animals.
(b) Rats.
(c) Muggers.
(d) Curfews.

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

5. Under this ruler, a land-locked inner basin is built which is linked to the Tiber via a canal.
(a) Trajan.
(b) Othello.
(c) Claudius.
(d) Augustus.

6. The Forum Boarium was used to do this.
(a) Sell houses.
(b) Sell food.
(c) Sell livestock.
(d) Sell jewelry.

7. The young aristocratic girls who are responsible for the sacred fire of Vesta, goddess of the hearth, are called:
(a) Vestal Virgins.
(b) Vestal Vipers.
(c) Vestal vicars.
(d) Vestal priestesses.

8. Magistrates address the assembly here.
(a) Apex.
(b) Comitium.
(c) Gallic.
(d) Forum.

9. Wild beast hunts are commonly staged in the ____________.
(a) Circus.
(b) Streets.
(c) Fields.
(d) Amphitheater.

10. The toga is a sign of this.
(a) Class.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Formality.
(d) Religion.

11. The Hellenised Egyptian goddess ____ also has a cult in Rome.
(a) Era.
(b) Gelda.
(c) Mithras.
(d) Isis.

12. The final writer of tragedy plays in Rome is this,
(a) Secundus.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Alexander.
(d) Pompeii.

13. This is used even in ancient Rome to access buildings during construction.
(a) Chains.
(b) Scaffolding.
(c) Ladders.
(d) Rope.

14. All jockeys of chariots belong to ______.
(a) Leagues.
(b) Clubs.
(c) Unions.
(d) Teams.

15. Nero and his advisers blame these individuals for a great fire that guts central Rome.
(a) Haters of Nero.
(b) Christians.
(c) Jews.
(d) Foreigners.

Short Answer Questions

1. This is the most sophisticated of the art forms in Roman theater.

2. The comedies that have an effect on later Roman comedy are the _____ and the ______.

3. It is under these emperors that Rome comes into its Golden Age.

4. The Sacra Via and the Nova Via are the only of these wide enough.

5. Caligula is succeeded by this person, whom many believed is stupid, due to physical ailments.

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