Quiz: The Rise of the Republic
•Due Oct 27 at 11:59pm
•Points 50
•Questions 41
•Time Limit 90 Minutes
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•Covers the Textbook material from Module 1: Week 1.
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•Contains 41 multiple-choice, true/false and short answer questions.
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Question 1
1 / 1 pts
Rome was founded in Italy in the 8th century B.C. along this river.
Rhine
Tiber
Danube
Thames
Ebro
Question 2
1 / 1 pts
Existing Roman law was codified in the mid-5th century by the Decemviral Commission, and set
up on bronze tablets in the Forum. What was the name of the code?
The Comitia Tributa
The Laws of the Twelve Tables
The Valerio-Horatian Laws
The Lex Canuleia
The Honorum
Question 3
1 / 1 pts
During the republican period of Roman history, the Romans created this office, held by two
patricians and empowered with imperium.
The Consulate
The Tribunate
The Comitia Centuriata
The Sodalitates
The Senate
Question 4
1 / 1 pts
Which of the following is true about Roman religion?
The Romans believed that sacrifice was good for the gods, replenishing the store of vital force
consumed by a spirit.
The Romans believed that omens and signs, such as thunder, lightning, the flights of birds, and
the entrails of sacrificial animals, revealed the will and intentions of the gods.
The Romans practiced human sacrifice.
All of the above
A & B only
A Roman dictator
A popular assembly
Early Romans’ belief in an invisible force that had power, life, and will.
A Greek sailing vessel
Question 5
1 / 1 pts
What was Numen?
A Roman calendar
Question 6
1 / 1 pts
Which of the following statements is NOT true about early Roman society?
Roman women lived their lives around their children. The honor of a woman was her children.
The father was the head of the Roman household.
The elderly were honored for their experience and wisdom.
Marriages were polygamous, and adultery and divorce common.
The Romans believed the more children the better.
Question 7
1 / 1 pts
These plebeian officials had two main powers: the right to give aid— protecting the life, person,
and interests of those who called upon them for help against a magistrate’s arbitrary use of
power—and the right of veto of any official act. They were considered sacrosanct (or revered
or untouchable). If anyone violently attacked them or interfered with their performance of
duties, that person would be considered accursed and could be killed with impunity.
Senators
Aediles
Praetors
Fetials
Tribunes
Question 8
1 / 1 pts
This Roman god was originally the spirit of the forest, and protector of the farmer’s crops and
herds, but later became the god of war, and defender of the Roman State against its enemies.
Mars
Jupiter
Juno
Minerva
Hera
He was a 2nd century B.C. Greek under Roman rule, who in his Histories, wrote of
Rome’s wars with Carthage (the Punic Wars).
Question 9
1 / 1 pts
NOT true about Polybius:
He cared little for the lessons history could teach or for the individual in
history.
He did not propose to produce a work of literary art, and explicitly rejected rhetoric and the
techniques of the tragic drama, and thus introduced few speeches in his work.
He brought to his subject a combination of political realism, military experience, personal
knowledge of topography, and a conviction of the organic unity of history.
Question 10
1 / 1 pts
These religious officials in early Rome were the sole keepers of the temple archives and
prescribed the various rituals, prayers, chants, and litanies for use in public worship and
sacrifice. They also supervised the burial of the dead, and organized the calendar that fixed the
dates of festivals.
Augurs
Fetials
Pontiffs
Sodalitates
Duovirs
Question 11
1 / 1 pts
This prestigious republican institution was an advisory council of prominent and experienced
men. It could not pass laws, but simply offered advice to magistrates. Despite its lack of official
powers, its decrees were highly respected, and rarely did the various lawmaking bodies ignore
or override its advice.
The Consulate
The Tribunate
The Censor
The Senate
The Comitia Curiata
Question 12
1 / 1 pts
Which of the following is true about the Twelve Tables?
It fixed into writing the preexisting law of custom passed down by patricians.
It abolished family revenge, and provided that no one could be put to death without a trial.
It established in principle the equality of all free citizens before the law.
All of the above
A & C only
Question 13
1 / 1 pts
This assembly had oversight of adoptions, wills, and disputes of inheritance.
The Senate
Curiate Assembly (Comitia Curiata)
Centuriate Assembly (Comitia Centuriata)
Plebeian Assembly
Tribal Assembly
Question 14
1 / 1 pts
This prominent Roman lawyer (52-120 A.D.) reflected upon the decay of Old Rome, a state
marked by individual excellence and social harmony. When the power of Rome brought the
curse of wealth, he argued, it destroyed the civic virtues, and then rampant luxury, greed, and
ambition corrupted leaders and transformed citizens into subjects who could bear neither full
servitude nor freedom. His two most significant works were Annales (18 books, covering the
years 14-68 A.D.) and Historiae (12 books dealing with the events of the years 69-96 A.D.)
Together, they constitute the most trustworthy source for the history of the early Principate.
They are both factual and critical.
Livy
Suetonius
Polybius
Tacitus
Plutarch
Question 15
1 / 1 pts
These religious officials of early Rome were responsible for taking auspices and conducting
auguries. They had the right to block public business by announcing unfavorable omens.
Augurs
Fetials
Pontiffs
Sodalitates
Duovirs
I
Question 16
0 / 1 pts
Which of the following is true concerning the Romans’ writing of their past?
They did not begin to systematically write their history until the end of the 3rd century B.C.—
some 500 years after the founding of Rome.
The first writers to attempt to reconstruct Rome’s past produced annals, or simple record of
events arranged in chronological sequence.
They relied heavily on a host of legends and oral traditions, family records of noble houses,
existing documents (such as treaties and laws), and the annals of the pontifex maximus.
All of the above I think this is the right answer.
B & C only WRONG
Question 17
1 / 1 pts
NOT true about the Roman family:
The head of the family had “patria potestas” (or “father’s power”), which was almost complete
—giving them the power of life and death over all children born to them in marriage.
Fathers were not tyrannical with their power, but were supposed to consult with other
members of the family. Their power was a call to promote the welfare of the entire family, and
not to abuse it.
While males were eligible to marry as early as age 14, the more common practice was to wait
until around age 20. This would give them time for their own paterfamilias to either die or to
follow a procedure known as “emancipatio”—not to mention gaining military and political
experience so as to attract the daughter of a prominent citizen.
Divorce was very common and easy to acquire in early Rome.
Question 18
1 / 1 pts
Which of the following is true about slavery in early Rome?
They were probably not very numerous
A slave was usually someone who had failed to pay off debt.
They constituted an integral part of the family, and usually worked beside other family members
at home and in the field.
They usually received decent treatment, and could generally look forward to freedom and
citizenship after some years of faithful service.
All of the above
Question 19
1 / 1 pts
Which of the following is true about early Romans and outsiders?
Romans were remarkably willing to incorporate outsiders as citizens of their community.
While they too could be prejudice, Romans tended to treat individuals of different national and
ethnic origins as they would anyone else of the same social status.
Slaves and faithful allies and subjects could eventually become Roman citizens.
Romans incorporated new citizens’ gods into their divine community.
All of the above
Question 20
1 / 1 pts
His History of Rome to 9 B. C., in 142 books, supplanted all previous chronicles, and has been
hailed as a “colossal masterpiece.” Essentially a literary artist and court historian, this source of
Roman history brought to bear upon the historical traditions of Rome an unexcelled narrative
skill, a superb prose style, and all the techniques of rhetoric and drama, to create what was
virtually a prose epic of the glories of Rome’s past. His basic aim was not critical inquiry, but
moral reform through lessons to be drawn from an idealized past, through emphasis on ancient
virtues, heroism, patriotic sacrifice and religious piety.
Polybius
Herodotus
Livy
Cicero
Tacitus
Question 21
1 / 1 pts
These magistrates administered criminal law, and served as quartermasters in charge of
supplies and the payment of troops.
Quaestors
Praetors
Aediles
Censors
Tribunes
Question 22
1 / 1 pts
This arms-bearing body was organized in seven property classes which were subdivided into
“centuries” of 100 men apiece. The assembly elected consuls, praetors, and censors, declared
war, and served as the last court of appeals in capital cases.
The Senate
Curiate Assembly (Comitia Curiata)
Centuriate Assembly (Comitia Centuriata)
Plebeian Assembly
Tribal Assembly
Question 23
1 / 1 pts
The Romans practiced cannibalism and human sacrifice in their religious observances.
True
False
Question 24
1 / 1 pts
A man not protected by a powerful paterfamilias, and who made up for this deficiency by
attaching himself to a more powerful man who could protect him as a father would.
Patron
Client
It was a struggle between patricians and plebeians that led to reform and
greater roles for plebeians. WRONG ANSWER
It began in 449 B.C. when the tribunes succeeded in securing the lex Canuleia, which rescinded
a law against intermarriage between patricians and plebeians.
I
Question 25
0 / 1 pts
What was the Struggle of the Orders?
It involved disputes between various groups of Roman priests.
All of the above
A & B only
A woman was always in the position of a daughter or ward to some adult male—a father,
husband, or tutor.
A woman’s position as wife (materfamilias) brought her honor in society.
While her husband conducted business outside the home, a wife supervised affairs inside the
home, including keeping track of slaves and dependents who processed food and fiber for the
home, and raising the children.
Women never had the right to vote or hold political office.
All of the above
Question 27
1 / 1 pts
These plebeian magistrates assisted the tribunes, and were superintendents of public works,
food and water supplies, markets, and public games.
Quaestors
Praetors
Question 26
1 / 1 pts
Which of the following is true about women in early Rome?
Aediles
Censors
Council of the Plebs
Question 28
1 / 1 pts
This class of Roman kin included those who were related by marriage, such as a mother-in-law
or father-in-law, and the parents of in-laws.
Plebs
Patricians
Agnates
Cognates
Affines
Question 29
1 / 1 pts
. Early Roman society was divided in two large genealogical groups (or gentes) by a class
distinction based on birth. The upper class was composed of this group of wealthy men who
held a monopoly of power and influence. What was the name of this group?
Plebeians
Patricians
Manus
Peculium
None of the above
Question 30
1 / 1 pts
The lower class or genealogical group (gens) of early Roman society was composed of this
group—the poor and dependent men who were small farmers, laborers, and artisans.
Plebeians
Patricians
Manus
Domus
None of the above
Question 31
1 / 1 pts
This 2nd century A.D. Roman biographer was an aide to Emperor Hadrian
(117-138), and had access to the imperial depositories. In his Twelve Caesars, he linked
individual lives and collective destinies closely together when in the first party of every
biography he described an emperor’s administrative activities and outstanding deeds, while he
dealt in the second part with an emperor’s personal life and character. His principal
contribution was in his relatively high degree of objectivity. With him, there is a move away
from the traditional eulogistic treatment, and movement toward a more astringent (or harsh or
biting) atmosphere, in which the men whom he described were examined with a cooler and
more disenchanted eye.
Livy
Plutarch
Polybius
Suetonius
Tacitus
Question 32
1 / 1 pts
This class of Roman kin was those related by blood or adoption through a father and his male
relatives up and down the line, including a father’s brother or sister, a paternal grandfather, a
nephews and nieces, children, and grandchildren.
Plebs
Patricians
Agnates
Cognates
Affines
Question 33
1 / 1 pts
This chief god of the Romans was originally a spirit of the vine, but over time became the
symbol of the Roman State, the giver of victory, and the spirit of law and justice.
Mars
Jupiter
Juno
Minerva
Hera
Question 34
1 / 1 pts
These magistrates examined the public and private conduct of senators, and registered citizens
and their property.
Quaestors
Praetors
Aediles
Censors
Tribunes
Question 35
1 / 1 pts
The early Romans were a conservative people who valued law and order, honor and loyalty, &
faithfulness to community.
True
False
Question 36
1 / 1 pts
An emergency office which allowed for the appointment of a single man to command the
Republic for a maximum of six months.
The Consulate
The Dictator
The Tribunate
The Senate
The Censor
Question 37
1 / 1 pts
This class of Roman kin was those related by blood or adoption in general but often were those
specifically in the female line.
Plebs
Patricians
Agnates
Cognates
Affines
Question 38
1 / 1 pts
A board of priests in early Rome that dealt with issues of peace and war.
Augurs
Fetials
Pontiffs
Sodalitates
Duovirs
Question 39
1 / 1 pts
The Struggle of the Orders ended in 300s B.C. with the patricians retaining most of their
political and social control.
True
False
Question 40
1 / 1 pts
A powerful man who protected the weak and vulnerable.
Patron
Client
Question 41
Not yet graded / 10 pts
According to lectures, what were some things that the early Romans valued? Your Answer:
These are the topics you need to address in this essay question!
Module Video: Elements of Early Roman Society
1. Children
2. Women
3. Elderly
4. Family
5. Patron-Client
