Stage 29 Culture Quiz

On which hill was the Temple of Jupiter, optimus maximus?

• Capitoline

• Viminal

• Palatine

• Quirinal

The monument to symbolize that Rome was the center of the world was:

• Trajan’s column

• milliarium aureum

• Temple of Peace

• Cloāca Maxima

The number of forums in Rome was:

• three

• four

• five

• six

The center of Roman, political, social, cultural, and religious life: Forum

• Caesaris

• Augustī

• Romanum

• Traianis

The Latin name for senate house

• basilica

• templum

• aula

• curia

Something that did not happen in the basilica.

• lawyers pleaded their cases

• merchants and bankers negotiated business deals

• citizens met and gossiped with friends

• all of the above happened in the basilica

The speaking platform in the forum Romanum was called:

• rostra

• curia

• Trajan’s Column

• basilica

The person who dedicated the arch of Titus and led a Triumph through it:

• Titus

• Augustus

• Domitian

• Trajan

Reason for the Jewish rebellion in 66 A.D.:

• higher taxes

• Roman persecution of Judaism

• both a and b

• neither a nor b

Roman commander who sacked Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

• Vespasian

• Silva

• Titus

• Domitian