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INTRO TO ANCIENT ROME
Sample Questions for First
Quiz
Note: Answer key is provided at
the end of this document.
PART 1: Multiple Choice (20%)
Answer all questions.
1. What is the traditional date for the founding of the
Roman Republic?
a) 753 BCE; b) 509 BCE; c) 287 BCE; d) 31 BCE
2. Who is credited with inspiring Romans to overthrow the
Etruscan kings?
a) Remus; b) Romulus; c) Julius Caesar; d) Lucretia
3. Who is the father of Aeneas?
a) Anchises; b) Ascanius; c) Iulus; d) Hector
4. In which war did Rome gain Sicily?
a) First Carthaginian; b) Second Carthaginian; c) First
Macedonian; d) Second Macedonian
5. Which one of the following figures did NOT espouse the
cause of the populares?
a) Julius Caesar; b) Gaius Gracchus; c) Marius; d) Sulla
6. What is the term for the "Clever Slave" figure in
Roman New Comedy?
a) servus callidus; b) honestior; c) popularis; d) vir
sapiens
7. Which of the following generals did NOT march on Rome?
a) Cato the Censor; b) Marius; c) Sulla; d) Caesar
8. What was the property qualification for an equestrian
in the late Republic?
a) one horse; b) two horses; c) 400,000 sesterces; d)
1,000,000 sesterces
9. Which one of the following figures came to Rome as a
slave?
a) Plautus; b) Virgil; c) Terence; d) Marius
10. What was the name of the general's tent in a Roman
military camp?
a) castra; b) concilium plebis; c) munitorium; d)
praetorium
PART 2. Historical Sequence (10%)
Number the following events by the order of their
historical occurrence, proceeding from earliest to latest
____ Civil War between Caesar and Pompey
____ Expulsion of Etruscan kings
____ Foundation of the Principate by Augustus
____ Civil War between Sulla and Marius
____ Hannibalic War (aka Second Punic War)
____ Attempted land reforms of the Gracchi brothers
PART 3. People (20%)
For THREE of the following people, give their approximate
dates and describe briefly what they tried to accomplish and
how their actions changed Roman society.
a) Cato the Censor
b) Sulla
c) Julius Caesar
d) Tiberius Gracchus
e) Marc Antony
PART 4. Terms and Concepts (20%)
Briefly define and discuss the significance of THREE of
the following.
a) latifundia
b) Dido
c) The Struggle of the Orders
d) First Triumvirate
e) devotio
PART 5. Short Essay Question (30%)
Answer ONE of the following questions. Your answer should
be at least one substantial paragraph (approx. 4-5
sentences) in length.
a) What two social institutions or practices tended to
lessen tensions between the upper and lower classes in Rome?
b) How did the Roman army contribute to the
"Romanization" of the peoples it conquered?
c) How was marriage in the Roman upper classes different
from that among the poorer classes?
ANSWER KEY
PART 1: Multiple Choice (20%)
1. What is the traditional date for the founding of the
Roman Republic?
a) 753 BCE; b) 509 BCE; c) 287 BCE; d) 31 BCE
2. Who is credited with inspiring Romans to overthrow the
Etruscan kings?
a) Remus; b) Romulus; c) Julius Caesar; d)
Lucretia
3. Who is the father of Aeneas?
a) Anchises; b) Ascanius; c) Iulus; d) Hector
4. In which war did Rome gain Sicily?
a) First Carthaginian; b) Second Carthaginian; c)
First Macedonian; d) Second Macedonian
5. Which one of the following figures did NOT espouse the
cause of the populares?
a) Julius Caesar; b) Gaius Gracchus; c) Marius; d)
Sulla
6. What is the term for the "Clever Slave" figure in
Roman New Comedy?
a) servus callidus; b) honestior; c) popularis; d)
vir sapiens
7. Which of the following generals did NOT march on Rome?
a) Cato the Censor; b) Marius; c) Sulla; d) Caesar
8. What was the property qualification for an equestrian
in the late Republic?
a) one horse; b) two horses; c) 400,000 sesterces;
d) 1,000,000 sesterces
9. Which one of the following figures came to Rome as a
slave?
a) Plautus; b) Virgil; c) Terence; d) Marius
10. What was the name of the general's tent in a Roman
military camp?
a) castra; b) concilium plebis; c) munitorium; d)
praetorium
PART 2. Historical Sequence (10%)
__5__ Civil War between Caesar and Pompey
__1__ Expulsion of Etruscan kings
__6__ Foundation of the Principate by Augustus
__4__ Civil War between Sulla and Marius
__2__ Hannibalic War (aka Second Punic War)
__3__ Attempted land reforms of the Gracchi brothers
PART 3. People (20%)
a) Cato the Censor
b) Sulla
- See Kamm pp. 38-39,
outline 3, and consult
your own notes.
c) Julius Caesar
- See Kamm pp. 45-48,
outline
4, and consult your own notes.
d) Tiberius Gracchus
- See Kamm pp. 30-33,
outline 3, and consult
your own notes.
e) Marc Antony
- See Kamm pp. 49-50,
outline
4, and consult your own notes.
PART 4. Terms and Concepts (20%)
Briefly define and discuss the significance of THREE of
the following.
a) latifundia
b) Dido
- See Vergil's Aeneid (books 2-4).
c) The Struggle of the Orders
d) First Triumvirate
- See
outline
4 and consult your own notes.
e) devotio
PART 5. Short Essay Question (30%)
a) What two social institutions or practices tended to
lessen tensions between the upper and lower classes in Rome?
b) How did the Roman army contribute to the
"Romanization" of the peoples it conquered?
c) How was marriage in the Roman upper classes different
from that among the poorer classes?
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