Assignment

Question 1
Which senator is often presented as the preserver of the old traditions of Rome?
Cato the Elder
Cato the Younger
Scipio Africanus
Livy

Question 2
The power and authority of the paterfamilias
applied only to his children.
was limited to his wage-earning years.
lasted as long as he lived.
was openly challenged by the growing public authority of women.

Question 3
The Villanovan culture did all of the following EXCEPT
cremate their dead.
use iron instead of bronze.
live in large, complex settlements.
worship Baal.

Question 4
Following Servius Tullius' reforms, landowners were divided into five classes, which were than divided into military units called
tribus.
latifundia.
centuries.
decades.

Question 5
Carthage benefited from all of the following EXCEPT
an excellent double harbor.
an army composed entirely of Carthaginian citizens.
a narrow isthmus and massive surrounding walls.
agricultural riches from the surrounding coastal plain.

Question 6
Originally, Rome and Carthage were allies against the
army of Alexander.
Etruscans in the north.
Greek city-states of Italy.
Celtics of Sicily.

Question 7
The law of the Twelve Tables
abolished the office of consul.
freed all slaves except those attempting revolt.
allowed anyone to know what the established laws were.
established a system of weights and measures.

Question 8
Carthage won the first and second Punic Wars, but lost the third
True
False

Question 9
If a child was born to a Roman family and had some type of physical defect, the Law of the Twelve Tables could be interpreted to
order the child to be raised by the state.
order the child into prostitution.
sanction the child's killing.
demand equal treatment for the child.

Question 10
This was the center of an expanding Phoenician presence in the western Mediterranean.
Sicily
Corsica
Carthage
Crete

Question 11
Carthage was a multiethnic empire
True
False

Question 12
Which of the following is the most plausible explanation for Roman ascendance over the Etruscan kings in the sixth century B.C.E.?
Everywhere the Etruscan monarchy was yielding to oligarchic republics.
Greek and Carthaginian colonists came to liberate the Romans.
The Etruscans granted the Romans independence.
Roman patricians revolted after the son of an Etruscan king raped a Roman.

Question 13
The Romans called Carthage the Punic Empire
True
False

Question 14
The Greeks and Romans condemned the religion of Carthage because of the practice of
trial by ordeal.
animal sacrifice.
infant sacrifice.
war captive sacrifice.

Question 15
Which of the following was NOT a god of Carthage?
El
Baal Hammon
Tanit
Enki

Question 16
On which hill were the earliest Roman villages founded?
Oppian
Palatine
Capitoline
Esquiline

Question 17
Legend says twins Romulus and Remus, who had been raised by a she-wolf, founded Rome
True
False

Question 18
The plebeians benefited from republican conquests in Italy by
obtaining land.
taking over dictator rights in emergencies.
obtaining hereditary rights.
receiving more power over the peasant classes.

Question 19
Recent archaeological evidence says the Etruscans originated in
western Italy.
western Africa.
Asia Minor.
eastern Europe.

Question 20
Women exercised informal authority within the family by all of the following EXCEPT
control over their dowries.
maintaining the direction of the household.
conducting the moral education of the child.
controlling business or property transaction.

Question 21
Which of the following was NOT a result of the three Punic Wars?
Carthage was destroyed.
Rome gained control of Sicily.
Rome gained control of Spain.
The Roman system of alliances in Italy broke down.

Question 22
He was the last Etruscan king.
Tarquin the Proud
Tarquin the Elder
Servius Tullius
Hamilcar Barca

Question 23
Which of the following regarding the Second Punic War is NOT accurate?
The Romans prevented the Carthaginians from entering Italy while the Roman legions ravaged Spain.
Scipio Africanus had brilliant diversionary attacks.
The Roman classes remained unified.
Most of Rome's allies continued to support the republic.

Question 24
Which of the following did Etruscan kings do?
Served as judges
Held supreme political power
Held positions as religious leaders
All of the above

Question 25
They were known as the best, as well as most ruthless, seafarers of antiquity.
Phoenicians
Villanovans
Etruscans
Athenians

Question 26
Syracuse defeated Carthage at the battle of
Marathon.
Messina.
Homer.
Himera.

Question 27
The Etruscan city-states were democracies, copying Athens
True
False

Question 28
Syracuse is located in
Carthage.
Africa.
Greece.
Sicily.

Question 29
This Carthaginian general led his army, and elephants, across the Alps into Italy in the Second Punic War.
Hasdrubal
Hamilcar Barca
Hannibal
Servius Tullius

Question 30
The Romans adopted the alphabet of the
Etruscans.
Greeks.
Phoenicians.
Egyptians.

Question 31
Divorce was common in second century B.C.E. Rome
True
False

Question 32
Roman letters were most affected by which civilization?
Egyptian
Greek
Persian
Carthaginian

Question 33
The term "pyrrhic victories" comes from the Greek King Pyrrhus, whose victories were more costly to him than to his opponents
True
False

Question 34
In early Roman society, this institution selected the candidate for king.
The Plebs
The Patricians
The Senate
The Curiae

Question 35
He was the Carthaginian commander who surrendered in the First Punic War.
Hasdrubal
Hamilcar Barca
Hannibal
Servius Tullius

Question 36
Servius Tullius' reforms
applied only to landless soldiers.
developed one standard of currency for all peoples of the Latin plain.
forced assimilation of Etruscans and Romans.
established a political and military system based only on property holding.

Question 37
The conflict between plebeians and patricians in the first half of the fifth century B.C.E. was called the
Social War.
Res Publica.
Curus Honorum.
Struggle of Orders.

Question 38
In the early Roman Republic, this was the supreme power to command, to execute the law, and to impose the death penalty.
Latifundia
Plebiania
The King
The Imperium

Question 39
This group overwhelmed Latium in the seventh century B.C.E., absorbing it into their civilization.
Greeks
Etruscans
Persians
Carthaginians

Question 40
These were large rural estates owned by patricians and worked by slaves and free tenant farmers.
Plantations
Latifundia
Paterfamilias
Cumae.