Deck 4: Rome

Question 1

Who is the most famous of all Roman poets and author of the Aeneid ?

A) Horace
B) Diocletian
C) Virgil
D) Cicero

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which Roman emperor wrote a philosophical text called Meditations ?

A) Julius Caesar
B) Marcus Aurelius
C) Nero
D) Trajan

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What Roman class was represented in the Senate?

A) plebeians
B) patricians
C) tribunes
D) stoics

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which writer and orator defended the Roman Republic by putting down a plot against the government?

A) Terence
B) Virgil
C) Cicero
D) Lucretius

Question 5

What are the two main periods of ancient Roman history?

A) Caesarean and Augustan
B) Republican and Imperial Rome
C) Epicurean and Stoic
D) Punic and Octavian

Question 6

Where is The House of the Tragic Poet?

A) Carthage
B) Pompeii
C) Tarquinia
D) Lesbos

Question 7

What was the outcome of the Battle of Actium (31 BCE) in the history of the Roman Republic?

A) Seneca became the leader of the Roman army.
B) Cleopatra was given Roman citizenship.
C) Carthage temporarily annexed parts of the Roman Republic.
D) Octavian became supreme ruler of Rome.

Question 8

What was the name of the large open space in the center of Rome used for meetings of the Senate and the assemblies of the people?

A) pantheon
B) tribune
C) forum
D) great hall

Question 9

What was the function of the Pont du Gard?

A) It was an apartment complex.
B) It was an aqueduct.
C) It was a market.
D) It was a military outpost.

Question 10

What political events characterized the last century of the Roman Republic (ca. 131 BCE to 31 BCE)?

A) power struggles between Roman statesmen
B) repeated peasant uprisings
C) battles against northern barbarians
D) the development of the "one-man, one-vote" system of electing government officials

Question 11

What principal school of philosophy in Rome believed that the proper goal of life was pleasure?

A) Stoicism
B) Imperialism
C) Plebianism
D) Epicureanism

Question 12

What event marks the end of the Roman Republic?

A) the fall of the Persian dynasty
B) the expulsion of the Etruscans from Rome.
C) the fall of Athens
D) the Battle of Actium

Question 13

According to the Ara Pacis , how did Emperor Augustus want to be remembered by future generations?

A) as a war hero
B) as a champion of the poor
C) as a bringer of peace and stability
D) as a great poet

Question 14

What is architecturally significant about the shape of the Pantheon's roof?

A) the oculus
B) the archway
C) the groin vault
D) the barrel vault

Question 15

What people occupied Rome from ca. 700 to 510 BCE?

A) Carthaginians
B) Persians
C) Egyptians
D) Etruscans

Question 16

What was the subject of the Jus Civile of Julius Caesar?

A) theology
B) Roman law
C) romantic love
D) military strategy

Question 17

Who was the first great Roman lyric poet?

A) Sappho
B) Catullus
C) Lucretius
D) Virgil

Question 18

Which Roman literary work is a key source of information about Greek and Roman mythology?

A) Meditations
B) the Aeneid
C) Sulpicia
D) Metamorphoses

Question 19

Who is the Roman equivalent to the Greek god Hermes?

A) Jupiter
B) Neptune
C) Mercury
D) Venus

Question 20

What Greco-Roman philosophy is associated with Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius?

A) Stoicism
B) Epicurianism
C) Animism
D) Tarquinianism

Question 21

Which emperor passed an edict setting stringent economic controls, helping to stabilize the floundering Roman Empire?

A) Trajan
B) Theodosius
C) Diocletian
D) Nero

Question 22

Etruscan tombs that resembled those of ancient Egypt would often have which of the following?

A) a stoa
B) a rotunda
C) a barrel vault
D) a sarcophagus

Question 23

What was significant about the Jus Civile?

Question 24

In Virgil's Aeneid , what was the name of the mythological queen of Carthage and lover of Aeneas?

A) Venus
B) Dido
C) Euridice
D) Juno

Question 25

Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE and destroyed __________.

A) Naples
B) Pompeii
C) Palermo
D) Carthage

Question 26

The Temple of Portunus borrows architectural elements from which civilizations?

A) Egyptian and Mesopotamian
B) Mycenaean and North African
C) Greek and Etruscan
D) Cretan and Phoenician

Question 27

According to Epicurus, why should humans be able to live free from superstitious fear of the unknown and not have to fear the threat of divine retribution?

Question 28

In what sense did the Roman Empire survive until 1453 CE?

Question 29

Though Roman sculptors took much from Greek visual arts, what new elements are seen in Roman sculpture?

Question 30

What is the name of the poetic meter in which the Iliad , the Odyssey , and the Aeneid were all written?

A) Iambic pentameter
B) lyric poetry
C) satire
D) Dactylic hexameter

Question 31

Which of the following did Neo-Platonism NOT influence?

A) Judaism
B) Islam
C) Buddhism
D) Christianity

Question 32

Who followed Diocletian as ruler of the Late Roman Empire in the West from 306-337 CE?

A) Constantine
B) Pliny
C) Octavius Caesar
D) Pompey

Question 33

Etruscans often used which material for statues?

A) terra-cotta
B) iron
C) granite
D) wood

Question 34

Which belief was central to the philosophical school of Stoicism?

A) the importance of an afterlife
B) the acceptance of all situations
C) the existence of an all-powerful being called the One
D) it is wise to seek pleasure

Question 35

Octavian defeated which Egyptian monarch?

A) Philopator
B) Berenice
C) Epigonos
D) Cleopatra

Question 36

Which monument portrays Rome's campaign in the Dacian Wars?

A) Arch of Titus
B) Trajan's Column
C) Arch of Constantine
D) Temple of Portunus

Question 37

Who is the most famous Roman satirist?

A) Cicero
B) Juvenal
C) Seneca
D) Virgil

Question 38

What were the major changes Emperor Constantine made during his reign?

Question 39

What event in 476 CE marks the decisive end of the Roman Empire in Western Europe?

A) the Battle of Actium
B) the Battle of Pharsalus
C) the death of Lucretius
D) the deposition of Romulus Augustulus

Question 40

Which of the following was a city in northern Africa that became part of the Roman Empire?

A) Carthage
B) Pompeii
C) Gaul
D) Byzantium