Chapter 6 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz

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. The ______ were lists of Sulla's political enemies whose lives and property were forfeit.

Interdictions correct incorrect

Censor Lists correct incorrect

Proscriptions correct incorrect

Denunciations correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is the creator of the volunteer army at Rome?

Gaius Marius correct incorrect

Lucius Cornelius Sulla correct incorrect

Gaius Julius Caesar correct incorrect

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus correct incorrect

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Which of the following pair of Celtic peoples defeated the Romans in a series of battles between 113-€“105 BCE?

The Aedui and Arverni correct incorrect

The Belgae and Sequani correct incorrect

The Cimbri and Teutones correct incorrect

The Sequani and Helvetii correct incorrect

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Which of the following was the leader of the great slave revolt from 73-€“71 BCE?

Spartacus correct incorrect

Eunus correct incorrect

Salvius, or 'Tryphon' correct incorrect

Caepio correct incorrect

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. The First Triumvirate was an unofficial alliance among which three men?

Caesar, Cinna, and Lepidus correct incorrect

Brutus, Caesar, and Crassus correct incorrect

Pompey, Caesar, and Brutus correct incorrect

Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus correct incorrect

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. The Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher ______ imagined a universe composed of atoms falling through space.

Sallust correct incorrect

Lucretius correct incorrect

Catullus correct incorrect

Varro correct incorrect

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. The Gabinian Law of 67 BCE gave Pompey the authority to do what?

Lead an army against the Parthians correct incorrect

Punish any Italian cities who revolted against Rome correct incorrect

Create new provinces in North Africa correct incorrect

Clear out the pirates infesting the Mediterranean Sea correct incorrect

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. Crassus was killed in an ill-fated war against the ______.

Parthians correct incorrect

Nabataean Arabs correct incorrect

Celts correct incorrect

Scythians correct incorrect

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. When Caesar arrived in Egypt to find that Pompey had been executed by order of Ptolemy XII, he did which of the following?

Executed Ptolemy and the rest of the Egyptian royal family correct incorrect

Rewarded Ptolemy with loot from his campaigns in Gaul correct incorrect

Deposed Ptolemy and installed Ptolemy’s sister, Cleopatra VII, as ruler correct incorrect

Attacked and conquered Egypt, making it into a Roman province correct incorrect

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. In the elections for the consulship in 63 BCE, Cicero defeated ______, who went on to raise a private army in revolt.

Caesar correct incorrect

Catiline correct incorrect

Crassus correct incorrect

Cinna correct incorrect