Latin for Americans, Level 2

Unit 5: Dē Bellō Gallicō I

Self-Check Quiz

1.
His _____ probably led Caesar to adopt the popular cause against the autocratic senatorial clique.
A)family associations with the common people's cause
B)personal conviction
C)shrewd political insight
D)all of the above
2.
Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed what is known as the _____.
A)First Triumvirate
B)Second Triumvirate
C)Third Triumvirate
D)Fourth Triumvirate
3.
Triumvirate means _____.
A)victory
B)three-man rule
C)united in anger
D)monumental arch
4.
In 59 B.C., Caesar was _____.
A)at war with Pompey and the Senate
B)allied with conservative senators
C)politically dominated by Bibulus
D)elected to the consulship
5.
During his years in Gaul, Caesar moved _____.
A)his troops south into Hispania
B)from consuming ambition for military power and glory to a desire for peaceful retirement from public life
C)from protecting Italy and southern France to aggressively reducing Transalpine Gaul to a Roman province
D)the gold he acquired into the hands of Gallic tribal leaders to build schools and homes
6.
Caesar initiated Civil War by _____.
A)crossing from Gaul to Corsica
B)crossing the Rubicon
C)crossing the Rhone
D)crossing the Tiber to Rome
7.
Caesar was a great general, statesman, writer, and _____.
A)orator
B)financier
C)philosopher
D)artist
8.
Caesar was assassinated in _____
A)49 B.C.
B)48 B.C.
C)45 B.C.
D)44 B.C.
9.
"Caesar's wife must be _____."
A)favored by Fortune
B)above suspicion
C)full of life and never strife
D)no gossip
10.
Foot soldiers and cavalry made up the ______.
A)exercitus
B)excursus
C)excidium
D)expertus
11.
Horsemen in Caesar's cavalry were typically _____.
A)Roman citizens
B)foreign mercenaries
C)slaves
D)none of the above
12.
A Roman legion is comparable to a _____ in the U.S. Army.
A)brigade
B)division
C)A and B
D)none of the above
13.
Legions were divided into ten _____.
A)cohorts
B)companies
C)centuries
D)auxiliaries
14.
Army auxiliaries were _____.
A)raiders, foragers, slingers, and archers
B)noncombatants
C)volunteers
D)spies
15.
Noncombatant members of the Roman army were _____.
A)servants
B)muledrivers
C)traders
D)all of the above
16.
A manual on the art of war was written in the fourth century A.D. by _____.
A)Exegesis
B)Vegetius
C)Machiavelli
D)Bellicus
17.
Caesar's conquest of Gaul freed Italy from the _____.
A)fear of invasion by Gauls and Germans
B)Treaty of Cisalpina
C)cultural influence of the Normans
D)none of the above
18.
Caesar fixed the frontier of Gaul at _____.
A)the Rhone
B)the Rhine
C)the Rubicon
D)the Danube
19.
Belgium, France, Portugal, and Spain became _____ after the subjugation of Gaul.
A)Teutonic
B)Iberian
C)Gallic
D)Latin
20.
The spoken, or "_____," Latin of Gaul evolved into modern French.
A)vulgate
B)vulgus
C)vulgar
D)vox populi
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