The Roman Peace (27 Bce 192 Ce) Complete Test Bank Ch.12 3e

CHAPTER 12 THE ROMAN PEACE (27 BCE–192 CE)

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 01

1. What were Augustus’ three main initiatives in the provinces?

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a. Putting down rampant slave revolts

b. A coherent policy with respect to expansion and defense

c. Integrating millions of provincials into the Roman world

d. An effective system of provincial administration

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 02

2. In the Battle of _______ in 9 BCE, three Roman legions under the command of Quinctilius Varus were destroyed in an ambush.

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a. the Teutoburg Forest

b. Masada

c. the Nile

d. Batavia

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 03

3. What are three policies that Augustus introduced in order to foster unity in the diverse Roman world?

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a. The establishment of the Cult of Rome and Augustus

b. The dismantling of provincial councils

c. The construction of a Roman road system

d. A standardized coinage system

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 04

4. Augustus created the intermediate status of _______ to slow down the entry of slaves into the citizen ranks.

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a. sestertius/sestertia

b. serf

c. freedman/freedwoman

d. vassal

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 05

5. It became customary in Rome for emperors, upon their succession, to bestow a _______ on the troops to solidify the army’s loyalty.

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a. long furlough

b. title

c. donative

d. golden mule

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 06

6. Which of the following was not a component of the moral legislation passed at Rome under Augustus?

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a. Marriage between persons of different social classes was restricted

b. The taxing of prostitutes

c. Women with three or more children received legal privileges

d. Tax breaks for soldiers who married while on active duty

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 07

7. Which of the following effectively became the poet laureate of Augustan Rome and in 17 BCE composed the hymn in honor of the Sacred Games?

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a. Horace

b. Maecenas

c. Livy

d. Vergil

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 08

8. Vergil’s poem _______ became the national epic of Rome.

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a. Romulus

b. The Aeneid

c. The Metamorphoses

d. The Carmen Saeculare

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 09

9. Before he was executed for plotting to seize the throne, the Praetorian Prefect _______ convinced the emperor Tiberius to retire to the island of Capri.

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a. Drusus

b. Macro

c. Sejanus

d. Germanicus

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 10

10. Which of the following were not among the puzzling policy decisions of the emperor Caligula?

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a. Decreeing divine honors for himself as the god Jupiter

b. The execution of Ptolemy of Mauretania for wearing a purple cloak

c. Ordering a statue of himself to be erected in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem

d. Wearing a lionskin and fighting staged battles in the arena

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 11

11. Roman heavy-handedness in Britain fomented a revolt led by what charismatic queen?

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a. Artemisia

b. Hypatia

c. Boudicca

d. Poppaea

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 12

12. Who was the emperor when the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum?

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a. Titus

b. Domitian

c. Vespasian

d. Nero

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 13

13. Which Roman emperor spent much of his reign on the road, visiting nearly every province?

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a. Antoninus Pius

b. Commodus

c. Nerva

d. Hadrian

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 14

14. Which of the following statements are true of gladiators?

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a. They might be defeated soldiers

b. They might be criminals condemned ad ludos (“to the games”)

c. They might free persons out to make money

d. They were all slaves

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 15

15. Which of the following was not one of the standard kinds of gladiator?

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a. The retiarius

b. The taurus

c. The murmillo

d. The Thracian

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 16

16. Which Roman novel includes the famous episode of “Trimalchio’s Dinner”?

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a. The Pharsalia

b. The Apocolocyntosis

c. The Satyricon

d. Daphnis and Chloe

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 17

17. Which of the following were among the reasons that the cult of Mithras was so popular in the Roman army?

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a. It required only a quick, one-time initiation

b. It admitted only men

c. Bull-slaying was a brave, manly activity

d. It offered the reward of an afterlife based on the continued exercise of virtue

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 18

18. Christians who were executed sometimes became _______, or “witnesses” to the faith.

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a. apologists

b. vicars

c. martyrs

d. seraphim

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 19

19. Here we see the frontiers of the Roman empire at the death of Augustus in 14 CE. Into which two of the following territories on this map did Roman power eventually expand under Trajan a century later?

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a. Sarmatia

b. Arabia

c. Dacia

d. Caledonia

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 20

20. This statue is a representation of which emperor, who portrayed himself as the Greek hero Hercules and fought as a gladiator in the arena?

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a. Trajan

b. Commodus

c. Caligula

d. Claudius