Review Quiz:  ROME & Christianity

•Who were Romulus and Remus?

a. Roman Reformers;  b. Roman Gods;   c. Legendary  founders of Rome 

d. Barbarians

 

•In Roman society, Plebians were:     a. aristocrats;     b. commoners ;      

c. philosophers;       d. rulers .

 

•Coloni were:            a. aristocrats;            b. poets ;      c. philosophers;     

 d. farmers.

 

•The Tribal Assembly was a:   a. military court;    b. league of barbarians;  

c. legislative body in Rome;  d. pantheon of Roman gods

 

  Who was the Roman aristocrat that was executed  for his efforts to bring about social and economic reform after the Punic Wars?  a. Caesar;   b. Anthony;    c. Cleopatra;    d. Gracchus           e. Octavian

 

•Which city was destroyed as a result of the Punic Wars? 

 a. Rome;      b. Venice;      c. Constantinople;               d. Carthage;                          e. Athens.

 

  Who was the last of the Egyptian Ptolemies and committed suicide rather than face Octavian's army? 

            a. Caesar       b. Pompey;                c. Cleopatra;            d. Gracchus;              e. Hannibal

 

  Who granted citizenship liberally to non-Italians; reduced debts; inaugurated a public works program; established colonies outside Italy, and reformed the calendar?

 a. Caesar;   b. Anthony;    c. Cicero;       d. Gracchus              e. Hannibal

 

  Who was the Carthaginian general that led  40,000 men and a detachment of elephants across the Alps and into Italy during the Punic Wars?

 a. Octavian;                          b. Anthony;                 c. Caesar;                d. Gracchus;            e. Hannibal

 

  Who was the adopted son, and grandnephew of Caesar?   His enlightened rule laid the foundations for two centuries of peace, order and prosperity in the Roman empire:       a. Octavian;               b. Anthony;  

             c. Cicero;      d. Gracchus;             e. Hannibal

 

  Who moved the capital of the Roman empire to Byzantium?  He also legalized Christianity in the Roman empire.  a. St. Benedict;      b. St. Basil;           c. St. Paul;     d. Constantine;        e. St. Augustine

 

  Who was the greatest orator of Roman times? He was a statesman who promoted the ideas and ideals of the Roman empire.          

  a. Ovid;           b. Pliny;        c. Virgil;           d. Homer;                  e. Cicero.

 

  Who was probably the greatest of all Roman poets?  His masterpiece, the Aeneid, was a great national epic which told about Aeneas, a legendary founder of  Rome who had fled from Troy.  a. Ovid;       b. Sappho;               c. Virgil;              d. Homer;      e. Cicero

 

  Who wrote The City of God  and Confessions  as well as more than a hundred religious works which have become the foundation of much of the Christian Church's theology?

 a. St. Benedict;        b. St. Basil;   c. St. Paul;    d. Constantine;         e. St. Augustine

 

  Who was the Founder of monasticism in the West?

a. St. Benedict;         b. St. Basil;     c. St. Paul;                d. Constantine;        e. St. Augustine

 

•Which of the following is most closely associated with the Council of Nicaea.

a. It was called by Nero.                 b. It was condemned by Constantine.    

c. It codified Roman Law.

d. It clarified the essential beliefs of the Christian faith.

e. It established Lay Investiture as the official of policy of the Christian Church.

 

  Who was the Pharisee that converted to Christianity and then traveled 8000 miles as a missionary teaching the fundamentals of the new religion.  He wrote many letters (epistles) as commentaries on Christianity which became part of the New Testament of the Bible.

 a. St. Benedict;         b. St. Basil;   c. St. Paul;                d. Constantine;                      e. St. Augustine

 

•Who was a missionary that contributed to the spread of Christianity to Ireland?

a. St. Boniface;         b. St Patrick;              c. St. Catherine;       d. St. Basil

 

•Which of the following did not contribute to the spread and influence of Christianity?

a. Monasticism;       b. regular clergy;      c. missionaries;  d. The Pope;  e. Roman emperors before Constantine.