A) Foreigners B) Gladiators C) Senators D) Citizens
A) No rights B) Only voting rights C) Full rights D) Property rights
A) Cicero B) Caracalla C) Augustus D) Gaius
A) Subject to reenslavement B) Granted full citizenship C) Executed immediately D) Imprisoned indefinitely
A) AD 212 B) AD 476 C) AD 312 D) AD 100
A) No B) Only if they paid a tax C) Only if they lived in Rome D) Yes
A) Roman senators B) Enemies defeated in war C) Freed gladiators D) Foreign merchants
A) caveat emptor B) carpe diem C) vini vidi vici D) servi aut nascuntur aut fiunt
A) Slaves are bought and sold B) Slaves are either born or made C) All people are born free D) War creates all slaves
A) Vernae B) Gladiators C) Freedmen D) Dediticii
A) Voluntary retirement B) Inheriting property C) Warfare D) Political election
A) Counterfeiting coins B) Smuggling goods C) Tax evasion D) Piracy and kidnapping
A) Failing school B) Orphaned parents C) Running away D) Child abandonment
A) Sold themselves into slavery B) Fought against slaveholders C) Lobbied to abolish slavery D) Bought their freedom early
A) Freeing them early B) Placing them in chains C) Giving them extra food D) Promoting them to overseer
A) Tattooing or branding B) Wearing a ring C) Piercing ears D) Cutting hair short
A) Questioning them in public B) Asking them to swear an oath C) Torturing them to confess a crime D) Exiling them temporarily
A) A farming academy B) A public library C) A gladiatorial school D) A political senate
A) Ludus B) Villa C) Servi D) Domus
A) With gladiators or wild beasts B) Against foreign armies C) In naval battles D) In chariot races
A) Dediticius B) Villa C) Domus D) Ludus
A) Verna B) Domus C) Ludus D) Villa
A) It was entirely caused by warfare B) It is hard to determine and remains debated C) It was solely caused by child abandonment D) It is completely known and undisputed
A) Plebeians B) Vernae C) Patricians D) Dediticii
A) Becoming the head of a Roman household B) Automatic elevation to elite Roman status C) Obtaining freedom through well-defined paths D) Exemption from all forms of physical labor
A) Foreign merchants traveling alone B) Wealthy landowners in rural estates C) Members of the Roman senatorial class D) Children of poor families
A) 71 BC B) 450 BC C) 2nd century AD D) 396 BC
A) Border patrols against foreign kidnappers B) Fugitive slave-hunting C) Routine census tracking D) Inspection of marketplace transactions
A) The end of the Punic Wars B) The drafting of the Twelve Tables C) The reign of Servius Tullius D) The time of Romulus
A) Pliny the Elder B) Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome C) Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome D) Spartacus the rebel leader
A) 71 BC B) 451/450 BC C) 396 BC D) 265 BC
A) Paterfamilias B) Cives Romani liberti C) Dominus dominium D) Liberi gentes
A) The ius gentium B) The Twelve Tables C) Natural law D) Civil law
A) The campaigns of Servius Tullius B) The conflicts during the late Imperial era C) The wars against the Etruscan cities D) The first two Punic Wars
A) Familia B) Paterfamilias C) Libertus D) Dominus
A) The Sasanian Empire B) The treaty of Flamininus C) The Twelve Tables D) The ius gentium
A) Marcus Crassus B) Flamininus C) Shapur I D) Hannibal
A) The Sasanian Empire B) The Greeks C) The Parthians D) The Romans
A) Ten years B) Some twenty years C) Over forty years D) About five years
A) The Greeks B) The Sasanians C) The Parthians D) The Carthaginians
A) The emperor Hadrian B) The historian Shapur I C) The Augustan poet Horace D) The commander Flamininus
A) Valerian B) Hadrian C) Shapur I D) Marcus Crassus
A) Hannibal B) Shapur I C) Flamininus D) Marcus Crassus
A) Lake Trasimene B) Rome C) Naqsh-e Rostam, southwest Iran D) Margiana in Bactria
A) Ius gentium B) Postliminium C) Potestas D) Latrocinium
A) Latrocinium B) Servi hostium C) Limen D) Bellum
A) Bellum B) Postliminium C) Latrocinium D) Potestas
A) Potestas B) Latrocinium C) Ius gentium D) Postliminium
A) One's own threshold B) A bandit camp C) A debt collector D) An enemy sovereign state
A) Stripped of all property forever B) Ambiguous until the lien was lifted C) Permanently classified as a slave D) Completely restored to full citizen rights immediately
A) Hadrian B) Shapur I C) Augustus D) Valerian
A) Res B) Servus C) Mancipium D) Dominus
A) Mancipium B) Persona C) Homo D) Paterfamilias
A) Manumissio B) Actio civilis C) Patria potestas D) Mancipatio
A) Liberi B) Peregrini C) Domini D) Plebeians
A) The senior military general B) The chief magistrate of the city C) The wealthiest merchant trader D) The property-owning paterfamilias
A) His wife B) His domestic slaves C) His agricultural workers D) His younger children
A) Mater B) Domina C) Regina D) Matrona
A) Civis B) Persona C) Homo D) Servus
A) A foreign visitor B) An emancipated freedman C) A convicted criminal D) A perpetual minor
A) Cuius regio eius religio B) Lex talionis C) Servus non habet personam D) Homo homini lupus
A) He could face penalties B) He was stripped of all Roman citizenship C) He received an automatic death sentence D) He was banished from the Italian peninsula
A) Financial bankruptcy B) Insubordination C) Mistreatment D) Old age or illness
A) The slave was granted land to farm B) The slave became public property of the state C) The slave was reassigned to a magistrate D) The slave became free
A) Nero B) Claudius C) Constantine II D) Antoninus Pius
A) Being burnt alive B) Being forced to fight in the arena C) Being banished to lead mines D) Being crucified in public
A) Raising taxes on slave transactions B) Protecting Christian identity C) Transferring all slave ownership to the church D) Abolishing the institution of slavery entirely
A) Manumission B) Contubernium C) Potestas D) Vermae
A) A freeborn man B) The slave's owner C) The emperor D) A Roman jurist
A) Adopt children B) Marry C) Own property D) Divorce their master
A) Nero B) Augustus C) Constantine D) Julius Caesar
A) Senatorial B) Plebeian C) Patrician D) Imperial
A) Three B) Two C) One D) Four
A) On agricultural estates B) In naval shipyards C) In Roman Senate meetings D) In gladiator schools
A) Real estate B) Livestock C) Foreign currency D) Precious metals
A) Dominus B) Patrimonium C) Servus D) Pecus
A) Ownership of the main house B) A small monetary peculium C) A portion of the master's political power D) Legal representation in court
A) Bribes from Roman magistrates B) Stolen goods from the master's estate C) Mandatory tribute from neighboring farms D) Gifts from a third party for meritorious services
A) No B) Only freedpersons could do this, never slaves C) Yes D) Only during the Republic era
A) Roman citizenship at birth B) Liberty C) Political office D) A military commission
A) Large political empires B) Control over the Roman Senate C) Vast agricultural plantations in Greece D) Considerable fortunes
A) Emancipatio B) Manumissio C) Paterfamilias D) Peculium
A) The emperor Nero B) The magistrate holding imperium C) An ordained bishop D) The censor
A) Chattel laborer B) Roman citizen C) Paterfamilias D) Junian Latin
A) The Twelve Tables B) lex Fufia Caninia C) The edict of AD 316 D) Novella 142
A) Within a church B) In a letter C) Among friends D) By the rod
A) Justinian B) Nero C) Augustus D) Constantine I
A) Hispania B) Africa C) Gaul D) Italy
A) Praetor B) Libertus C) Patronus D) Libertinus
A) Praetor B) Libertus C) Patronus D) Praeses
A) Money B) Sworn stipulations C) Projects D) Services
A) Lex Aelia Sentia B) Lex Cornelia C) Lex Julia D) Lex Valeria
A) Plebeians B) Libertini C) Patroni D) Praetores
A) Toga candida B) Toga praetexta C) Toga virilis D) Toga picta
A) Quaestor B) Aedile C) Consul D) Praetor
A) Late Republic B) Byzantine period C) Middle Republic D) Early Imperial period
A) Demetrius B) Lucius Arlenus C) Trimalchio D) Narcissus
A) Antonine emperors B) Julio-Claudian emperors C) Flavian emperors D) Severan emperors
A) Real estate development B) Cloak dealership C) Grain trade D) Pottery manufacturing
A) Paphlagonia B) Pompeii C) Cilicia D) Rome |