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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, The Capture of Rome: Chapter 1, Rome's Capture, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the leaders have mixed feelings about, as a result of the slaves' revolt?
(a) Eliminating the curfew.
(b) Disarming the people.
(c) Arming the people.
(d) Imposing a curfew.

2. How is the problem of debt described?
(a) As a manageable civil and social problem.
(b) As a past social problem.
(c) As an unmanageable civil and social problem.
(d) As a past civil problem..

3. How many years is Rome a Republic before other well known governments are established, such as Athens and Sparta?
(a) About 320 years.
(b) About 200 years.
(c) About 400 years.
(d) About 120 years.

4. How do the women in Rome factor into the wars during Rome and the Patricians?
(a) They are kept away from them.
(b) They are involved, but not on the front lines.
(c) They are the reason for the wars being fought.
(d) They are on the front lines along with the men.

5. How does Rome use the Dictatorship during The Republic?
(a) Never.
(b) It replaces the consul.
(c) Only as needed.
(d) Every other year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unique about Lucius Tarquitius?

2. How many days are taken to contemplate the origin of the lights in the sky that are seen after a military campaign?

3. Where is the civil strife in Rome resolved?

4. How common is the interaction between human and divine beings in Ancient Rome, according to Livy?

5. What is the innovation talked about at the end of War & Politics?

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