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1.[2p] What did collegiality mean for the two consuls?
What did collegiality mean for the two consuls?
The answer is: Each held the whole of imperium, so either could block whatever the other ordered
The answer is: Each held the whole of imperium, so either could block whatever the other ordered
The answer is: Each held the whole of imperium, so either could block whatever the other ordered
2.[2p] Under Sulla's arrangements twenty quaestors and two consuls were elected each year. What percentage of a quaestorian cohort could reach the consulship?
Under Sulla's arrangements twenty quaestors and two consuls were elected each year. What percentage of a quaestorian cohort could reach the consulship?
3.[2p] If the Senate holds steady at 600 members and 20 new men enter each year, what is the mean length of service, in years?
If the Senate holds steady at 600 members and 20 new men enter each year, what is the mean length of service, in years?
4.[2p] What was the citizen's right of appeal against a magistrate's coercion called?
What was the citizen's right of appeal against a magistrate's coercion called?
5.[1p] A senatus consultum was a law, and a magistrate who ignored one was acting illegally.
A senatus consultum was a law, and a magistrate who ignored one was acting illegally.
The answer is: False
6.[3p] Match each office to its main business.
Match each office to its main business.
censor
quaestor
aedile
praetor
dictator
handles public money at Rome or with an army
runs the city's markets, streets and games
takes the census and revises the roll of the Senate
single emergency command, six months at most
presides over the courts and may command an army
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censor: takes the census and revises the roll of the Senate quaestor: handles public money at Rome or with an army aedile: runs the city's markets, streets and games praetor: presides over the courts and may command an army dictator: single emergency command, six months at most
7.[2p] Put the offices of the cursus honorum in the order a career climbed them.
Put the offices of the cursus honorum in the order a career climbed them.
Quaestor
Aedile
Censor
Consul
Praetor
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a, b, c, d, e
8.[3p] Why could a commander not keep his army and stand for office in Rome at the same time?
Why could a commander not keep his army and stand for office in Rome at the same time?
The answer is: Standing required entering the pomerium as a private citizen, which meant laying down imperium
The answer is: Standing required entering the pomerium as a private citizen, which meant laying down imperium
The answer is: Standing required entering the pomerium as a private citizen, which meant laying down imperium
9.[2p] Which of these could a Roman assembly do?
Which of these could a Roman assembly do?
Select all that apply
The answer is: Elect the magistrates, Accept or reject a bill exactly as a magistrate put it
The answer is: Elect the magistrates, Accept or reject a bill exactly as a magistrate put it