Quiz 4

Question 1

Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between the legislative agendas of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus?

Answer 1

Tiberius was interested in a single issue while Gaius seems to have had a more wide-ranging interest in reforming Roman culture

Question 2

The plebeians were…

Answer 2

Included both rich and poor, not a homogenous group, was everyone who was not a patrician

Question 3

What was the purpose of a senatus consultum (“decree of the senate”)?

Answer 3

Offer the senate’s consensus view on an issue

Question 4

How was the expense for maintaining a year-round military covered in the period after the Punic Wars?

Answer 4

With war booty

Question 5

How did Tiberius Gracchus die?

Answer 5

He was beaten to death by a chair leg

Question 6

What was unusual about Scipio Aemilianus’s election as consul?

Answer 6

He did not meet the legal requirements that were put in place after the 2nd Punic War

Question 7

What issue was of particular interest to Tiberius Gracchus?

Answer 7

The distribution of public land

Question 8

Who served in the Roman military during the Punic Wars?

Answer 8

Senators, plebeians, and Roman allies

Question 9

The office of censor was created as a result of the Licinian-Sextian reforms.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Where on/in the dead body did the Romans place a coin for passageway across the River Styx?

Answer 10

In the mouth

Question 11

What role did libertas play in the celebration of a military triumph at Rome?

Answer 11

The troops and crowd were permitted to shout rude insults and curses at the triumphant general

Question 12

Why did the Romans place the dead body (cadaver) on the ground?

Answer 12

It was a reference to a ceremony that took place at birth, when the infant was placed on the ground and then lifted up by its father

Question 13

What office did Tiberius Gracchus hold when he was attempting to enact his reforms?

Answer 13

Tribune of the Plebs

Question 14

When the inhabitants of a conquered city were granted citizenship, to what voting century were they assigned?

Answer 14

The lowest one

Question 15

The building boom after the Second Punic War resulted in the rise of: (Mark all that are correct)

Answer 15

Civic patronage and extensive villas

Question 16

How did Hannibal overcome the obstacle of boulders while crossing the Alps?

Answer 16

They lit a fire under the rock and poured vinegar over it

Question 17

The role of this magistrate included ensuring that senators met a certain moral standard.

Answer 17

Censor

Question 18

Why was Scipio Africanus forced to withdraw from public life?

Answer 18

He was harassed by nuisance trials

Question 19

In which of the following ways did the cursus honorum change after the 2nd Punic War?

Answer 19

Military service became a requirement for holding office

Question 20

Although Rome’s allies bore most of the burden of supplying soldiers for military campaigns, it was Rome who benefited the most from the spoils gained from war.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Which of the following types of construction were associated with military victory? Mark all correct answers.

Answer 21

Columns, arches, and temples

Question 22

Who were the patricians?

Answer 22

The descendents of the original 100 senators appointed by Romulus

Question 23

How could an inquiry (quaestio) be initiated in ancient Rome? Mark all that are correct.

Answer 23

The senate could request that a magistrate start one, or the Roman people could pass a law that demanded one

Question 24

What was a problem that Rome faced as the “world police”?

Answer 24

They were expected to intervene in foreign disputes

Question 25

Where was the eulogy given?

Answer 25

The forum

Question 26

Which statement best characterizes the Roman view of rhetoric by the senate in the period after the 2nd Punic War?

Answer 26

They felt that it was immoral because it disconnected speech from belief.

Question 27

In what way did Gaius Gracchus reform the juries of the standing courts?

Answer 27

The jurors would now be drawn from the equestrian class rather than the senatorial class

Question 28

This cult, brought in from the Greek world, was a shock to Roman sensibilities due to its wild and orgiastic nature.

Answer 28

Bacchus

Question 29

What did the example of Lucius Postumius Albinus illustrate?

Answer 29

The abuse of non-Roman allies by the Romans

Question 30

Which of the following was NOT a power held by the senate?

Answer 30

Pass binding legislation

Question 31

The Romans heavily borrowed these forms of literature from the Greeks:

Answer 31

Drama, especially comedies, history, and Homerian epic

Question 32

What was the name of Tiberius Gracchus’ opposing co-tribune?

Answer 32

Octavius

Question 33

With the influx of wealth after the Punic Wars, the divide between the rich and poor began to fade away.

Answer 33

False

Question 34

Who awarded a general a triumph?

Answer 34

The senate

Question 35

Tiberius Gracchus’ land commission proposal failed to pass.

Answer 35

False