Deck 24: Legends of Early Rome

Question 1

According to a popular saying, _______ found Rome a city of brick but left it a city of marble.

A) Hadrian
B) Brutus
C) Julius Caesar
D) Augustus

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The usual story is that Aeneas died in battle three years after founding what town?

A) Rome
B) Alba Longa
C) Lavinium
D) Naples

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Amulius drove out his brother _______ and then killed all his sons.

A) Numitor
B) Faustulus
C) Lupa
D) Titus

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The narrative details of the story of the infants Romulus and Remus recall which examples from other myth traditions?

A) Hercules
B) Oedipus
C) Paris
D) Moses

Question 5

What are the two main stories about the quarrel in which Romulus kills Remus?

A) Remus contemptuously jumped over Romulus' half-built wall
B) Remus slept with Romulus' wife
C) They disagree over who received the more auspicious bird sign
D) Romulus suspected Remus of conspiring with Rome's enemies

Question 6

From where did the Romans under Romulus get the women in order to insure that the Romans could grow in number?

A) The Apulians
B) The Volscians
C) The Etruscans
D) The Sabines

Question 7

A cliff on the Capitoline Hill was used a place for the execution of traitors, and was named after _______.

A) Titus Tatius
B) Tarpeia
C) Remus
D) Quirinus

Question 8

After Romulus became a god, he was worshipped as the ancient numen _______.

A) Dominus
B) Sabinus
C) Quirinus
D) Capitolinus

Question 9

A deified emperor was not officially a true god, but could become a _______ by a vote of the Senate after he died.

A) genius
B) dues
C) divus
D) conditor

Question 10

Some emperors, such as Caligula, Nero, and Commodus, suffered what dreadful sentence after they died?

A) The erasure of their name and image throughout the empire
B) The tossing of their corpses into the Tiber River
C) The dismembering of their bodies, with the limbs scattered outside imperial territory
D) Burying their bodies with a live snake, fox, and wolf cub

Question 11

Rome was ruled by how many kings after its foundation in 753 BC?

A) twelve
B) seven
C) ten
D) five

Question 12

What does the surviving Horatius brother do when he returns from the battle against the Curiatii?

A) Kill his sister, who was mourning the death of one of the Curiatii
B) Name himself dictator for life
C) Pledge never again to pick up a weapon against any of Rome's neighbors
D) Bury his parents, who died of grief for his two slain brothers

Question 13

What horrible act cemented the wicked reputation of Tullia I, wife of Tarquin the Proud?

A) She killed her own sons from her former marriage to insure the primacy of Tarquin's children
B) She drove her carriage over her father's corpse
C) She drowned all other women and children named Tullia
D) She betrayed Rome to the Sabines

Question 14

Wy does Lucretia kill herself?

A) Because she unwittingly gave secret information about Rome's defenses to the Etruscans
B) Because one of her servants tried to betray Rome to the Etruscans
C) Because her husband Collatinus was unfaithful
D) Because she was raped by Sextus Tarquin

Question 15

Which of the following aspects of Roman religion were adapted from the Etruscans?

A) Interpreting the entrails of sacrificed animals
B) Scanning the sky for omens
C) Deification of an emperor after death
D) A prohibition on representation of the gods

Question 16

Who bravely defended a wooden bridge against the Etruscans until the bridge could be chopped down-forcing him to swim back to safety in full armor?

A) Cincinnatus
B) Corioloanus
C) Horatius Cocles
D) Mucius Scaevola

Question 17

Which Roman fought on the side of the Volsci against Rome, relenting only when his wife, carrying their sons, and his mother ran between the armies on the battlefield and begged him to stop?

A) Cincinnatus
B) Corioloanus
C) Horatius Cocles
D) Mucius Scaevola

Question 18

What, technically, was a triumph?

A) The religious ritual that took place immediately, on the battlefield itself, after a Roman military victory
B) The festival that inaugurated new senators
C) A festival for an ex-consul who has announced that he is retiring from public life
D) A victory parade after a foreign military victory

Question 19

Which three monuments did Augustus build in the Campus Martius?

A) The Altar of Augustan Peace
B) The Temple to Apollo
C) His Mausoleum
D) The sundial called the Horologium Augusti

Question 20

What is the name of the shepherd who discovered the she-wolf and the abandoned Romulus and Remus?

A) Numitor
B) Faustulus
C) Lupa
D) Titus

Question 21

Who are represented here?

A) Julius Caesar and Octavian Caesar
B) Romulus and Remus
C) Ascanius and Iulus
D) Faustulus and Laurentia