Chapter 10 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz

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. Which of the following is not one of the peoples who put pressure on the Roman frontiers in the third century?

The Alamanni correct incorrect

The Thracians correct incorrect

The Goths correct incorrect

The Franks correct incorrect

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. The Greek-speaking senator ______ wrote an enormous history of Rome, from Aeneas to his own consulship in the early third century CE.

Cassius Dio correct incorrect

Dionysius of Halicarnassus correct incorrect

Tacitus correct incorrect

Callinicus correct incorrect

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. Under Roman criminal law by the Severan period, Roman citizens were classified into two legal distinctions, ______ and ______.

honestiores, humiliores correct incorrect

superiores, inferiores correct incorrect

patricians, plebeians correct incorrect

apti, inepti correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not one of the economic dilemmas afflicting the empire during the third century?

The Roman people’s failure to accept the Severans’ introduction of paper money correct incorrect

The falling value of silver coinage, which thus did not shore up the bronze coinage correct incorrect

The hoarding of silver coinage, as bad currency pushed it out of circulation correct incorrect

The responsibility for tax collection shortfalls falling upon the decurions correct incorrect

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. Which emperor tried and failed to make an eastern sun god the primary god of the Roman Empire?

Severus Alexander correct incorrect

Philip the Arab correct incorrect

Maximinus the Thracian correct incorrect

Elagabalus correct incorrect

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. In 193 the Praetorian Guard effectively auctioned off the emperorship, and the winning bid came from ______.

Septimius Severus correct incorrect

Didius Julianus correct incorrect

Clodius Albinus correct incorrect

Cassius Dio correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was the queen of the eastern city of Palmyra who created a Palmyrene Empire and eventually took the title of Augusta?

Julia Maesa correct incorrect

Julia Mamaea correct incorrect

Zenobia correct incorrect

Theodora correct incorrect

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Which emperor's nicknames included "Hand on Sword"€ and "the Restorer of the World"?

Aurelian correct incorrect

Probus correct incorrect

Trajan Decius correct incorrect

Septimius Severus correct incorrect

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. Caracalla's law that granted Roman citizenship to all inhabitants of the Roman Empire (except slaves and some freedmen) is known as the ______.

Mandate of Caracalla correct incorrect

Antonine Constitution correct incorrect

Severan Suffrage correct incorrect

Decree of Caracalla correct incorrect

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. The ______ created the New Persian Empire and laid claim to a huge swath of territory in the eastern part of the empire.

Alamanni correct incorrect

Franks correct incorrect

Sasanids correct incorrect

Vandals correct incorrect