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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When they overthrew the Etruscans in 510 BCE, what did the Romans decide not to have in their society?

Taxes

A monarch

Class distinctions

Slaves

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why was the Pantheon constructed with a 30-foot-diameter oculus (hole) in its roof?

To prevent rain from pooling on the rooftop

To symbolize Jupiter's ever-watchful eye over Rome

To lighten the weight of the 20-foot-thick dome

To allow rooftop access for the dome's maintenance

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To what two groups does Roman culture trace its origins?

The Dorians and the Phoenicians

The Greeks and the Etruscans

The Latiums and the Rutulians

The Egyptians and the Greeks

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did Augustus pass laws forcing citizens to marry and penalizing them for being childless?

To revive family life and increase the number of citizens in Rome

To ensure a continuing supply of soldiers

To expand the slave force

To punish his political enemies

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the symbolic heart of a Roman domus?

The atrium

The cubicula

A dining room

The sleeping quarters

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did Roman artists deviate from the Greeks' portrayals of mythological events and heroes, instead depicting in their art current events and real people?

To avoid being mere imitators of Greek artists

To propagandize and to flatter their emperors

To awe the world with the state's accomplishments

To intimidate their enemies with military portraits

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did Virgil compose the Aeneid?

To provide Rome and Augustus with a suitably grand founding myth

To fulfill his state obligations as Rome's first poet laureate

To explain the enmity between Carthage and Rome

To celebrate Augustus's gift of farmland to veterans

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