Author Question: Romans entrusted their leaders with the power to issue commands and enforce those commands by force, ... (Read 37 times)

Haya94 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Censors had an important role in the early Republic. They had the power to ________.

A. black out passages from private communication
B. destroy books
C. light fires for incense in the temple
D. remove senators for moral impropriety
E. take away art deemed too erotic for public display

Question 2

The Roman constitution was ________.

A. written on papyrus
B. engraved in stone
C. an unwritten accumulation of laws and customs
D. kept in a temple dedicated to Minerva
E. never amended

Question 3

Upper-class Roman women had ________ compared with women in classical Greece.

A. less power and influence
B. more power and influence
C. more incentive to bear twins
D. more responsibilities to the state
E. fewer responsibilities to the state

Question 4

A major institutional check on the power of the consuls was the body known as the ________.

A. Assembly of Avengers
B. Gracchi
C. House
D. Senate
E. tribal dance association

Question 5

Romans entrusted their leaders with the power to issue commands and enforce those commands by force, if necessary. This power was called ________.

A. a priori
B. coloni
C. humanitas
D. imperium
E. latifundia