Final Exam

Question 1

Roman commoner

Answer 1

plebeian

Question 2

an officer of the king who carried his symbol of power (fasces)

Answer 2

lictor

Question 3

two chief magistrates elected to rule the Republic

Answer 3

consuls

Question 4

representatives chosen to protect the rights of plebeians

Answer 4

tribunes

Question 5

Roman official who supervised public morals

Answer 5

censor

Question 6

first Roman laws written and displayed in the forum

Answer 6

Laws of the Twelve Tables

Question 7

first Roman magistrate sent to govern a province (either name)

Answer 7

praetor/ pro-consul

Question 8

amulet given to a Roman boy or girl 9 days after birth

Answer 8

bulla

Question 9

citizen-spy; set up by Tiberius (Roman gestapo)

Answer 9

delator

Question 10

chief priest; established by Numa

Answer 10

Pontifex Maximus

Question 11

bodyguard of the emperor

Answer 11

Praetorian Guard

Question 12

son of Hamilcar; general of Carthage

Answer 12

Hannibal

Question 13

man who saved Rome at the Pons Sublicius

Answer 13

Horatius

Question 14

day that Caesar was murdered

Answer 14

Ides of March

Question 15

man who burned his hand to scare Lars Porsena

Answer 15

Caius Mucius

Question 16

brothers (just last name) who tried to reform Roman laws

Answer 16

Gracchi

Question 17

Roman censor who opposed the growth of Greek culture

Answer 17

Cato

Question 18

dictator who returned to his farm after defeating the Aequians

Answer 18

Cincinnatus

Question 19

solider under Pompey; conspired to murder Caesar

Answer 19

Marcus Brutus

Question 20

led rebellion of gladiators

Answer 20

Spartacus

Question 21

consul who changed the citizen army into a professional army

Answer 21

Caius Marius

Question 22

consul taken captive when he led an attack against Carthaginian armies

Answer 22

Regulus

Question 23

first general to use the Roman army to take Rome itself captive

Answer 23

Sulla

Question 24

Hannibal’s brother; slain at the battle of Metaurus

Answer 24

Hasdrubal

Question 25

founder of Carthage; clever with an ox skin

Answer 25

Dido

Question 26

sister of Ptolemy; made Mark Antony lose his mind

Answer 26

Cleopatra

Question 27

king of Syria; plotted with Philip against Rome

Answer 27

Antiochus

Question 28

consul who opposed Julius Caesar; member of First Triumvirate

Answer 28

Pompey

Question 29

two cities destroyed by Rome in 146 B.C.

Answer 29

Corinth, Carthage

Question 30

the year Rome became "Mistress of the Mediterranean"

Answer 30

133 B.C.

Question 31

dictator during the Second Punic War; used tactics that avoided having any open battle with Hannibal

Answer 31

Qunitus Fabius Maximus

Question 32

mother of Nero; married for power

Answer 32

Agrippina the Younger

Question 33

general who led revolt against Nero

Answer 33

Galba

Question 34

founder of the Stoic philosophy

Answer 34

Xeno

Question 35

leader of the Huns

Answer 35

Attila

Question 36

leader of the Goths that captured Rome

Answer 36

Alaric

Question 37

Roman general (of German descent) who ended the reign of emperors in the West

Answer 37

Odoacer

Question 38

collected and preserved many Greek and Latin manuscripts

Answer 38

Cassidorus

Question 39

nephew of historian; witnessed the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

Answer 39

Pliny the Younger

Question 40

Stoic philosopher; unsuccessful in teaching Stoicism to Nero

Answer 40

Seneca

Question 41

Adopted son of most famous Scipio; sent to burn Carthage

Answer 41

Aemilianus

Question 42

Most famous Scipio; defeated Hannibal at Zama

Answer 42

Africanus

Question 43

Daughter of most famous Scipio; mother of Gracchi

Answer 43

Cornelia

Question 44

Brother of the most famous Scipio; defeated the Syrians

Answer 44

Lucius

Question 45

Consul who led attack on Carthaginians in Spain

Answer 45

Publius Cornelius

Question 46

Who said, "Veni, vedi, vici."

Answer 46

Caesar

Question 47

Who said, "The City which had taken the world was itself taken ... The Roman world is falling!"

Answer 47

Jerome

Question 48

Who said, "Take we the course which the signs of the gods and the false dealing of our foes point out. The die is cast!"

Answer 48

Caesar

Question 49

Who said, "Greece, conquered Greece, her conqueror subdued, And Rome grew polished, who till then was rude."

Answer 49

Horace

Question 50

Who said, "All men rule over women, we Romans rule over all men, and our wives rule over us

Answer 50

Cato the Censor

Question 51

What was the threefold mission of Rome?

Answer 51

To conquer, to rule, and to civilize

Question 52

Diocletion divided the Empire into the ___ and ___.

Answer 52

East and West

Question 53

Rome reached its greatest extent, in terms of size, under ___

Answer 53

Trajan

Question 54

Rome reached its greatest extent, in terms of unity, under ___

Answer 54

Hadrian