Chapter 5 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz

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. What was the name given to the new social class, dominated by those who made their money in trade, money lending, and tax collecting, that emerged in this period?

new men correct incorrect

optimates correct incorrect

equestrians correct incorrect

publicans correct incorrect

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. The standard Roman silver coin was the ______, and the standard Roman gold coin was the ______.

aes signatum; denarius correct incorrect

denarius; aureus correct incorrect

as; pecunia correct incorrect

aureus; pecunia correct incorrect

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. Tiberius Gracchus held what office in 133 BCE?

Proconsul correct incorrect

Praetor correct incorrect

Consul correct incorrect

Tribune of the Plebs correct incorrect

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. According to the Greek writer Lucian, some frenzied devotees of the goddess ______ went so far as to castrate themselves as part of the festival held in her honor.

Cybele correct incorrect

Isis correct incorrect

Attis correct incorrect

Hipsala correct incorrect

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. Zeno of Citium was the founder of which philosophical school that found many adherents at Rome?

Neoplatonism correct incorrect

Epicureanism correct incorrect

Cynicism correct incorrect

Stoicism correct incorrect