Question 1

The praetorian guard came to play an important role in making and deposing emperors.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The Art of Love

Accepted Answer

A) condemned the loose sexual morals of the Roman upper classes. 
B) caused great displeasure to Augustus and led to Ovid's eventual exile. 
C) was a guidebook for married women. 
D) was a poetical treatise on romantic love. 
E) All of these are correct. 
A) condemned the loose sexual morals of the Roman upper classes. 
B) caused great displeasure to Augustus and led to Ovid's eventual exile. 
C) was a guidebook for married women. 
D) was a poetical treatise on romantic love. 
E) All of these are correct.

Question 3

Which of the following trends developed during the reigns of the Julio-Claudian emperors?

Accepted Answer

A) Emperors took more and more actual ruling power away from the old Senate. 
B) All efforts to achieve bureaucratic organization of imperial government eventually failed. 
C) Emperors turned over more and more of the daily affairs of government to the Senate. 
D) The power of imperial military forces stationed in Rome declined. 
E) The Senate seized political power, against the wishes of the weak emperors. 
A) Emperors took more and more actual ruling power away from the old Senate. 
B) All efforts to achieve bureaucratic organization of imperial government eventually failed. 
C) Emperors turned over more and more of the daily affairs of government to the Senate. 
D) The power of imperial military forces stationed in Rome declined. 
E) The Senate seized political power, against the wishes of the weak emperors.

Question 4

Imperial Rome's gladiatorial shows

Accepted Answer

A) became increasingly associated with religious practices. 
B) were government-backed spectacles used to content the masses. 
C) were limited to fights between slaves and criminals trained at gladiatorial schools. 
D) paled in popularity to the Circus Maximus. 
E) were outlawed by Augustus as violating his policy of moral reform. 
A) became increasingly associated with religious practices. 
B) were government-backed spectacles used to content the masses. 
C) were limited to fights between slaves and criminals trained at gladiatorial schools. 
D) paled in popularity to the Circus Maximus. 
E) were outlawed by Augustus as violating his policy of moral reform.

Question 5

The mystery cult of Mithraism in the Early Empire

Accepted Answer

A) was widely practiced by women. 
B) was completely opposed to the practices of Christianity. 
C) centered around the worship of the gods Roma and Augustus. 
D) was an illegal monotheistic religion 
E) was a religion especially favored by soldiers. 
A) was widely practiced by women. 
B) was completely opposed to the practices of Christianity. 
C) centered around the worship of the gods Roma and Augustus. 
D) was an illegal monotheistic religion 
E) was a religion especially favored by soldiers.

Question 6

The word "gospels" means

Accepted Answer

A) truth. 
B) love. 
C) the word of Jesus. 
D) to your health. 
E) good news. 
A) truth. 
B) love. 
C) the word of Jesus. 
D) to your health. 
E) good news.

Question 7

How and why did the teachings of Christianity pose a challenge traditional Roman attitudes, values, and lifestyles?

Accepted Answer

The teachings of Christianity posed a ch

Question 8

One historian has said that the Romans became Christians and the Christians became Romans.Is that an accurate assessment of the relationship between Rome and early Christianity? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

The statement that "the Romans became Ch

Question 9

Among Augustus's most important actions in the area of Roman religion was his

Accepted Answer

A) destruction of the cults of Augustus and Roma. 
B) claim to be a god in his own lifetime. 
C) creation of an imperial cult. 
D) outlawing all traditional female religious festivals. 
E) destruction of all of the mystery religions. 
A) destruction of the cults of Augustus and Roma. 
B) claim to be a god in his own lifetime. 
C) creation of an imperial cult. 
D) outlawing all traditional female religious festivals. 
E) destruction of all of the mystery religions.

Question 10

How does the literature of the late Republic, the Augustan Age, and the Early Empire reflect the political problems of each period?

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The literature of the late Republic, the

The praetorian guard came to play an important role in making and deposing emperors.

The Art of Love

Which of the following trends developed during the reigns of the Julio-Claudian emperors?

Imperial Rome's gladiatorial shows

The mystery cult of Mithraism in the Early Empire

The word "gospels" means

How and why did the teachings of Christianity pose a challenge traditional Roman attitudes, values, and lifestyles?

One historian has said that the Romans became Christians and the Christians became Romans.Is that an accurate assessment of the relationship between Rome and early Christianity? Why or why not?

Among Augustus's most important actions in the area of Roman religion was his

How does the literature of the late Republic, the Augustan Age, and the Early Empire reflect the political problems of each period?

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

The Civilization of the Greeks

The Hellenistic World

The Roman Republic

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

Recovery and Rebirth: the Age of the Renaissance

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II

Cold War and a New Western World 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World 1965-1985

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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Exam 6: The Roman Empire

The praetorian guard came to play an important role in making and deposing emperors.

The Art of Love

Which of the following trends developed during the reigns of the Julio-Claudian emperors?

Imperial Rome's gladiatorial shows

The mystery cult of Mithraism in the Early Empire

The word "gospels" means

How and why did the teachings of Christianity pose a challenge traditional Roman attitudes, values, and lifestyles?

One historian has said that the Romans became Christians and the Christians became Romans.Is that an accurate assessment of the relationship between Rome and early Christianity? Why or why not?

Among Augustus's most important actions in the area of Roman religion was his

How does the literature of the late Republic, the Augustan Age, and the Early Empire reflect the political problems of each period?

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

The Civilization of the Greeks

The Hellenistic World

The Roman Republic

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

Recovery and Rebirth: the Age of the Renaissance

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II

Cold War and a New Western World 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World 1965-1985

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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