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Exam Questions Chapter 4 The Expansion Of The Roman Republic

Chapter 4

15 instructor questions: 5 multiple choice, 10 T/F

1. After Hannibal’s consecutive victories between 218–216 BCE, the fearful and panicked Romans consulted the ______.

  1. Sibylline books (p. 114)
  2. shapes of clouds and other meteorological phenomena
  3. entrails of five hundred cattle
  4. flight of birds over the tomb of Romulus

2. In the early third century BCE, ______, not Rome, was the strongest Mediterranean state.

  1. Illyria
  2. Syracuse
  3. Macedonia
  4. Carthage (p. 111)

3. Hannibal’s capture of the Spanish city of ______ precipitated the Second Punic War.

  1. Saguntum (p. 113)
  2. Zama Regia
  3. Cannae
  4. Lusitania

4. Appius Claudius Caecus spearheaded the construction of the ______ in 312 BCE.

  1. Appian Way (p. 108)
  2. Appian Wall
  3. Claudine Forks
  4. Temple of Mars

5. In the year 146 BCE, Rome made a statement to any other peoples who might resist their will by destroying which two famous cities?

  1. Carthage and Syracuse
  2. Corinth and Carthage (p. 118)
  3. Cyrene and Athens
  4. Alexandria and Sparta

  1. Decius Mus inspired his troops to victory at the Battle of Sentinum by performing the ancient ritual of devotio. (T, p. 108)
  2. The Second Macedonian War ended with the Romans reluctantly occupying the Greek mainland. (F, p. 116)
  3. The Romans won a major victory in the First Samnite War. (F, p. 106)
  4. The territory that we call the Roman Empire was largely developed during the Roman Republic. (T, p. 105)
  5. Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder routinely ended his speeches in the Senate by admonishing his fellow senators that “Carthage must be destroyed.” (T, p. 118)
  6. Rome annexed Carthage in in 227 BCE and made it their first province. (F, p. 112)
  7. The so-called Syrian War actually began with a battle in Greece (the Battle of Thermopylae), not in Syria. (T, p. 116)
  8. In their early conflicts, the Romans won more battles than they lost. (F, pp. 105–106)
  9. Hannibal marched his army up to the gates of Rome itself. (T, p. 114)
  10. One of the uses to which the Romans put the confiscated land they called ager publicus (“public land”) was the establishment of strategic military colonies. (T, p. 109)

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Created Date:
Aug 21, 2025
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Chapter 4: The Expansion Of The Roman Republic (350–120 Bce)
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Ralph W. Mathisen

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