Latin for Americans, Level 2

Unit 3: Livy

Self-Check Quiz

1.
Livy witnessed ____.
A)the Punic Wars
B)the reign of Nero
C)the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
D)the fall of the Republic and the establishment of the Principate
2.
Of Livy's 142 books, ____.
A)all survive
B)107 survive
C)35 survive
D)none survive
3.
Livy's histories begin with the origins of Rome and end in ____.
A)91 B.C.
B)9 B.C.
C)A.D. 35
D)A.D. 39
4.
Livy believed that history could teach ____.
A)only verified facts
B)nothing
C)the courses of action that produce good and bad results
D)the results of extensive and laborious research
5.
Eutropius wrote ____.
A)the first novel
B)a brief history of Rome
C)an extensive biography of Livy
D)a collection of famous quotations
6.
The greatest military defeat ever suffered by the Romans was the battle of ____.
A)Cannae
B)Carthage
C)Corsica
D)Cunctator
7.
Hannibal's plan of encirclement ____.
A)has been extensively imitated in modern warfare
B)did not work as planned
C)left the center of his forces in place while the right and left withdrew
D)resulted in modest losses for the Romans
8.
Rome finally won the Second Punic War because ____.
A)Roman morale remained high while Hannibal did not follow up his victories and lost support
B)Fabius hounded Hannibal's forces and avoided pitched battles
C)Scipio reorganized the army
D)all of the above
9.
The transmission of ____ civilization was guaranteed by the outcome of the Second Punic War.
A)Carthaginian
B)Roman and Greek
C)Greek and Carthaginian
D)Roman and Carthaginian
10.
During the second century A.D., the Roman Empire covered parts of ____ continents.
A)two
B)three
C)four
D)five
11.
The nobility's ____ was diminished during the Empire.
A)personal liability
B)personal liberty
C)political liberty
D)bureaucracy
12.
Provincial members of the Roman Empire did not have the right to ____.
A)make war on their neighbors
B)speak their own tongue
C)pay tribute to Rome
D)cultivate surplus food
13.
In the West, Latin gradually decayed into the ____ languages.
A)Roman
B)Romantic
C)Anglo-Saxon
D)Romance
14.
"All men are equal" is a(n) ____ doctrine.
A)Epicurean
B)Stoic
C)Platonic
D)Aristotelian
15.
The poet Claudian said Rome treated the whole human race as ____.
A)free labor
B)emperors
C)sons
D)flowers
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