•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;
• 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;
•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;
• 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.