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A constitution without a document

A constitution without a document

1.[2p]

What did collegiality mean for the two consuls?

Correct
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?

CorrectNot quite: 10

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?

CorrectNot quite: 30

4.[2p]

What was the citizen's right of appeal against a magistrate's coercion called?

CorrectNot quite: provocatio

5.[1p]

A senatus consultum was a law, and a magistrate who ignored one was acting illegally.

The answer is: False
Correct

6.[3p]

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.

  1. Quaestor

  2. Aedile

  3. Censor

  4. Consul

  5. 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?

Correct
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?

Select all that apply

Correct
Correct
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