Question 1

Which historian wrote accounts of the War against Jugurtha and the Conspiracy of Catiline?

Accepted Answer

A) Sallust 
B) Varro 
C) Livy 
D) Lucretius A

Question 2

Which of the following earned the nickname Adulescens carnifex ("The Teenage Butcher") in his youth?

Accepted Answer

A) Crassus 
B) Pompey 
C) Julius Caesar 
D) Sulla B

Question 3

Who created the Roman volunteer army?

Accepted Answer

A) Lucius Cornelius Sulla 
B) Tiberius Gracchus 
C) Gaius Gracchus and Fulvius Flaccus 
D) Gaius Marius D

Question 4

This famous Roman was nicknamed Dives ("the Rich") and brought an end to the slave revolt sparked by Spartacus. Who is he?

Accepted Answer

A) Julius Caesar 
B) Pompey 
C) Crassus 
D) Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Question 5

Large senatorial estates were known as _______.

Accepted Answer

A) equites 
B) remoramina 
C) retinaculae 
D) latifundia

Question 6

When _______ occupied the Aventine Hill, the Senate responded by passing the Senatus consultum ultimum, or "Last Decree of the Senate."

Accepted Answer

A) Gaius Gracchus and Fulvius Flaccus 
B) Tiberius Gracchus 
C) Gaius Marius 
D) Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Gaius Marius

Question 7

Under Tiberius Gracchus, Senators increasingly looked out for their own self-interest. In doing so, they split into what two camps based on their preferred methods for doing so?

Accepted Answer

A) optimates 
B) revoluti 
C) frigiduli 
D) populares

Question 8

After which battle on this map did Caesar issue his famous words "veni, vidi, vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered")?

Accepted Answer

A) Ilerda (49 BC
E)  
B) Zela (47 BC
E)  
C) Alesia (52 BC
E)  
D) Alexandria (47 BC
E)

Question 9

Who published Proscriptions in order to kill his enemies and reward his soldiers?

Accepted Answer

A) Spartacus 
B) Crassus 
C) Pompey 
D) Sulla

Question 10

What charismatic leader united the Gauls in a great revolt against Caesar and the Romans in 52 BCE?

Accepted Answer

A) Ctesiphon 
B) Ariovistus 
C) Vercingetorix 
D) Philip II Philoromaeus

Question 11

What were the three main responsibilities of a provincial governor?

Accepted Answer

A) The administration of justice 
B) Military defense 
C) Establish a centralized office of provincial administration 
D) Collect taxes

Question 12

Whom did Cicero, when he was Consul, accuse of plotting to overthrow the state?

Accepted Answer

A) Pompey 
B) Catiline 
C) Marius 
D) Julius Caesar

Question 13

Whom did Julius Caesar adopt in his will?

Accepted Answer

A) Gaius Octavius 
B) Mark Antony 
C) Marcus Aemilius Lepidus 
D) Caesarion

Question 14

The honorary title Augustus, conferred on Octavian by the Senate, means something like _______.

Accepted Answer

A) "The conqueror" 
B) "The one who is revered" 
C) "The one who brought peace" 
D) "The strong"

Question 15

Locally hired tax collectors were known as _______.

Accepted Answer

A) dispares 
B) staticuli 
C) publicani 
D) incogniti

Question 16

The year 90 BCE saw a massive revolt of Rome's Italian allies that triggered the so-called _______.

Accepted Answer

A) Conflict of the Nations 
B) Social War 
C) "Last Decree of the Senate" 
D) Creation of the first volunteer army at Rome

Question 17

Which of the following seized on unhappiness with Roman provincial administration to lead a major war against Rome?

Accepted Answer

A) Mithridates VI 
B) Cornelius Cinna 
C) Darius I 
D) Jugurtha

Question 18

In 31 BCE the forces of Octavian faced off against Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of _______.

Accepted Answer

A) Zela 
B) Pharsalus 
C) Actium 
D) Philippi

Question 19

Reportedly saying, "The dice are cast," Caesar crossed the _______ with his army in 49 BCE.

Accepted Answer

A) Pyrenees Mountains 
B) Alps 
C) Nile Delta 
D) Rubicon River

Question 20

Which of the following are among the powers that Augustus gathered to himself in 21 BCE and the years thereafter?

Accepted Answer

A) The power to appoint the two Consuls 
B) Maximus 
C) Greater proconsular imperium 
D) The tribunician power

Exam 11: Crisis, Recovery, and the Creation of the Principate 150-21 BCE