Latin for Americans, Level 1

Unit 12: Classical Myths and Portraits of Roman Heroes

Glimpses of Roman Life: Roman Social and Economic Conditions

1
Political dissension in the Roman empire reached its peak in the ____ century B.C.
A)first
B)second
C)fifth
D)third
2
A major cause of this political dissension was ____.
A)problems with the military
B)the ongoing dispute about the system of government
C)the inability to control the food supply
D)the loss of individual liberties
3
As in modern times, Roman people occasionally went hungry when the ____ crop failed.
A)wheat
B)oat
C)corn
D)potato
4
It is said that at one point in time, ____, which was the ruling body, had plans to give food away to the poor.
A)the senate
B)the imperial council
C)parliament
D)congress
5
____, in the fifth century B.C., advised the Senate not to give away free bread and thereby antagonized the plebeians.
A)Constantine
B)Coriolanus
C)Tiberius Gracchus
D)Augustus
6
In the second century B.C., rich nobles acquired large farms by taking over public lands and forcing out ____.
A)native tribal people
B)nomadic peoples
C)small businesses and their owners
D)small farmers
7
These people could not get work on the large farms because ____.
A)the landowners lost all their money
B)of wheat shortages
C)the farms used slave labor
D)they were uneducated
8
____ planned to force the large landowners to sell most of their land and cut up this land into small rentable farms for veterans.
A)Nero
B)Coriolanus
C)Julius Caesar
D)Tiberius Gracchus
9
____ created road-building jobs and established many programs to help the poor.
A)Augustus
B)Julius Caesar
C)Coriolanus
D)Gaius Gracchus
10
____ , a popular leader who favored measures to help the poor, made himself dictator and laid the foundation of government by emperors.
A)Tiberius Gracchus
B)Nero
C)Julius Caesar
D)Coriolanus
11
Under Augustus there was a time of prosperity and better living conditions, which lasted ____ years.
A)fifty
B)five hundred
C)two hundred
D)one hundred
12
With the prosperity, individual liberties were ____.
A)nonexistent
B)written into the public records
C)increased
D)reduced
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