Chapter 2 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz

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. The Greek legend of the founding of Rome singled out Aeneas, a ______, as the man who founded the city.

Trojan correct incorrect

Sicilian correct incorrect

Greek correct incorrect

Carthaginian correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not one of the three different kinds of marriage in early Rome?

confarreatio correct incorrect

coemptio correct incorrect

usus correct incorrect

imperium correct incorrect

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. The so-called "Q speakers" included the people who would later come to be known as ______.

Scythians correct incorrect

Apennines correct incorrect

Etruscans correct incorrect

Latins correct incorrect

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. Rhea Silvia, the daughter of Nukitor, is the mother of ______.

Aeneas correct incorrect

Romulus and Remus correct incorrect

Faustulus correct incorrect

Mars correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not a result of the clientela system at Rome?

physical protection and legal services for the plebeian client correct incorrect

a greater tendency to resolve disputes through violence correct incorrect

an entourage in war for the patrician patron correct incorrect

help for the patrician patron in raising a ransom or dowry correct incorrect

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. The last three kings of the Romans, traditionally credited with the development of Rome into a proper city, are known as the ______.

"Three Just Kings" correct incorrect

Latin kings correct incorrect

"Three Wicked Kings" correct incorrect

Etruscan kings correct incorrect

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. Authority in a Roman household belonged unquestionably to the ______.

clientela correct incorrect

oldest living son correct incorrect

paterfamilias correct incorrect

matriarch correct incorrect

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. Which culture is associated with the Iron Age in northern and central Italy?

Villanovan correct incorrect

Mycenaean correct incorrect

Cretan correct incorrect

Tarquinian correct incorrect

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. According to tradition, the year 509 BCE marked the ______.

inauguration of the Vestal Virgins at Rome correct incorrect

expulsion of the last king of Rome and the formation of the Roman Republic correct incorrect

first war between the Roman and the Greeks of southern Italy correct incorrect

transition from an aristocratic form of government at Rome to an oligarchic one correct incorrect

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. The Etruscans specialized in two forms of divination in particular: the auspices, the ______; and haruspicy, the ______.

interpretation of cloud formations; sound of wind in the trees correct incorrect

examination of flights of birds; inspection of sheep livers correct incorrect

sound of the wind in the trees; movements of wild animals correct incorrect

utterances of an inspired priestess; inspection of human organs correct incorrect