TEST CODE 1018
2007 NJCL ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY TEST
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Which is farthest north?
A. Cyrene
B. Germania Superior
C. Moesia
Which is farthest west?
A. Raetia
B. Noricum
C. Pannonia
Which is farthest south?
A. Lycia
B. Cilicia
C. Galatia
Which is farthest east?
A. Thrace
B. Bithynia
C. Asia Province
Which does NOT border the Danube?
A. Pannonia
B. Dacia
C. Moesia
Which is NOT part of Gaul?
A. Belgica
B. Narbonensis
C. Baetica
Which province is NOT on the African continent?
A. Egypt
B. Africa
C. Dalmatia
Which is NOT an island?
A. Corsica
B. Aquitania
C. Capri
Which mountain is NOT in Greece?
A. Pelion
B. Soracte
C. Olympus
Which river is NOT in Gaul?
A. Sequana
B. Tagus
C. Matrona
Which tribe did NOT live in Britain?
A. Cantiaci
B. Durotriges
C. Veneti
Which city was NOT is the area we now call Turkey?
A. Palmyra
B. Ephesus
C. Tarsus
Which is NOT an area of Italy?
A. Brutium
B. Paeonia
C. Picenum
Which city is farthest from Carthage?
A. Lepcis Magna
B. Utica
C. Zama
Where was the city of Paphos?
A. Crete
B. Cythera
C. Rhodes
Which is farthest from the Pontus Euxinus?
A. Tomi
B. Adrianople
C. Vindobona
What is the modern name of Colonia Agrippinensis?
A. Bonn
B. Cologne
C. Trier
What is the modern name of Aquae Sextiae?
A. Orange
B. Lyon
C. Aix-en-Provence
Which is farthest from Rome?
A. Brundisium
B. Tarentum
C. Capua
Where in Sicily is Syracuse?
A. southeast
B. northeast
C. far west
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D. Germania Inferior
D. Moesia
D. Cappadocia
D. Pontus
D. Illyricum
D. Lugdunensis
D. Mauretania
D. Euboea
D. Cithaeron
D. Rhodanus
D. Iceni
D. Pergamum
D. Gallia Transpadana
D. Cirta
D. Cyprus
D. Constantinople
D. Vienna
D. Bath
D. Naples
D. south coast
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Which is NOT on the Peloponnesus of Greece?
A. Sparta
B. Mycenae
C. Pylos
D. Olympus
What is the modern name of the Roman city Vienna?
A. Vienna
B. Wein
C. Venice
D. Vienne
Which is farthest north?
A. Thermopylae
B. Pydna
C. Philippi
D. Pharsalus
What is the modern name of the British town of Deva?
A. Devon
B. Chester
C. York
D. Exeter
What city was located at the "toe" of Italy?
A. Rhegium
B. Tarentum
C. Ancona
D. Bibracte
Where was the city Italica?
A. Italy
B. Spain
C. Gaul
D. Macedonia
What do we call the Sinus Arabicus?
A. the Arabian Sea
B. the Persian Gulf
C. the Dead Sea
D. the Red Sea
Which was NOT an Imperial province at the time of the death of Augustus?
A. Egypt
B. Syria
C. Macedonia
D. Noricum
Which WAS part of the Roman Empire at the time of the death of Augustus?
A. Lusitania
B. Britannia
C. Thrace
D. Mauretania
Which island in the Aegean is the farthest north?
A. Thasos
B. Lemnos
C. Delos
D. Chios
Where was Actium?
A. the heel of Italy
B. the Peloponnese
C. modern Albania
D. south of Epirus
Where was Troy?
A. north of Athens
B. south of the Black Sea C. northwest Turkey
D. Syria
Which city was farthest from Rome?
A. Veii
B. Lavinium
C. Tibur
D. Clusium
Which cape on the west coast of Italy was NOT named for a character in the Aeneid?
A. Caieta
B. Circeii
C. Palinuro
D. Miseno
The Gauls defeated the Romans at the Allia River in 390 B.C. The Allia is a tributary of which river?
A. Po
B. Anio
C. Tiber
D. Sarno
What did Republican and Imperial Rome call the Ager Tarquiniorum?
A. Janiculus
B. Campus Martius
C. Vallis Murcia
D. Vaticanus
Which a Rome's seven hills is farthest south?
A. Aventine
B. Palatine
C. Capitoline
D. Quirinal
What direction are you going when you travel from Rome to Ostia?
A. northwest
B. southwest
C. northeast
D. southeast
What direction are you going when you travel from Herculaneum to Pompeii?
A. northwest
B. southwest
C. northeast
D. southeast
What direction are your going when you travel from Naples to Cumae?
A. east
B. south
C. west
D. north
Where were the cities of Ilipa, Numantia, Baecula, and Tarraco?
A. Gallia
B. Dalmatia
C. Hispania
D. Iudaea
Which river flows past Cannae?
A. Tigris
B. Rhenus
C. Aufidus
D. Euphrates
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In what province were the cities of Ilerda and Munda, where Julius Caesar fought and won
battles against Pompey's supporters?
A. Hispania
B. Africa
C. Sardinia
D. Syria
Daphne's father, the river Peneius, flows where in relation to Mt. Olympus?
A. south
B. north
C. east
D. northeast
Which is NOT on the Attic peninsula?
A. Athens
B. Delphi
C. Marathon
D. Eleusis
What was the capital of Lesbos?
A. Abydos
B. Lindos
C. Apollonia
D. Mytilene
Where is the section of Gaul known as Aquitania?
A. just south of the Pyrenees
B. east of the Rhone River
C. north of the Garonne River
D. south of the Garonne River
What do we call the Liger Flumen?
A. Tiber
B. Loire
C. Arar
D. Thames
Where was Zela?
A. southwest of Carthage
B. between the Tigris and Euphrates
C. southern Pontus
D. northern Egypt
What do we now call the British city of Eburacum?
A. York
B. Exeter
C. Colchester
D. Winchester
What direction would a traveler from Londinium to Aquae Sulis have to travel?
A. east
B. north
C. west
D. south
What city was temporarily named Aelia Capitolina?
A. Jerusalem
B. Athens
C. London
D. Antioch
What province was Rome's primary source of tin?
A. Spain
B. Britain
C. Thrace
D. Asia province
What province supplied Rome with most of its purple dye?
A. Africa province
B. Egypt
C. Bithynia
D. Judaea
What do we call Rome's Circus Agonalis today?
A. Circus Maximus
B. Circus of Maxentius C. Piazza Venezia
D. Piazza Navona
Which hill in Rome was crowned by the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus?
A. Palatine
B. Capitoline
C. Esquiline
D. Quirinal
Rome's Castra Praetoria was located beside which of Rome's gates?
A. Porta Clausa
B. Porta Tiburtina
C. Porta Appia
D. Porta Flaminia
What monument lies across the Tiber from the Campus Martius via the Pons Aelius?
A. Circus of Flaminius
B. Hadrian's tomb
C. Pantheon
D. Colosseum
Where was the Circus of Caligula and Nero?
A. southern Campus Martius
B. north of the Quirinal
C. between the Janiculan and Vatican hills
D. along the Via Appia
Which monument is farthest from the Forum Boarium of Rome?
A. Temple of Aesculapius B. Circus Maximus
C. Theater of Marcellus D. Pantheon
Where are the Aeolian Islands, the mythical home of the winds?
A. north of Sicily
B. between Sardinia and Italy
C. east of Carthage
D. in the Ionian Sea
The island of Samos, Hera's favorite island, is closest to which city?
A. Ephesus
B. Athens
C. Knossos
D. Troy
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Where is the town of Formiae, where Cicero was murdered?
A. in Samnium
B. about half way between Rome and Naples
C. south of Naples
D. in Etruria
Where is Pithecusae, the first Greek colony in Magna Graecia?
A. in the Gulf of Tarentum
B. off the shore of Brundisium
C. south of Italy's "toe"
D. west of Naples and Pompeii
Which is not in the same general vicinity as the others?
A. Mycenae
B. Tiryns
C. Sparta
D. Nemea
Which city is NOT associated with Alexander the Great?
A. Pella
B. Babylon
C. Syracuse
D. Alexandria
Before 265 B.C. Rome controlled all of Italy south of what point?
A. the Po
B. Rome
C. Veii
D. the Rubicon
Marius defeated the Cimbri at Vercellae in 101 B.C. Where is Vercellae?
A. near Geneva
B. in Etruria
C. in Cisalpine Gaul
D. near Marseilles
What was the name of the main Roman highway from Italy east through Macedonia?
A. Via Egnatia
B. Via Asiatica
C. Via Octaviana
D. Via Antoniana
Which WAS in Galilee?
A. Caesarea
B. Petra
C. Bethlehem
D. Tiberias
From A. D. 284-305 what area of the Roman world was called Suburbicaria?
A. western Turkey
B. the area of the Alps C. Italy south of Rome
D. Hispania
Where is Nemausus, the home town of Antoninus Pius?
A. outside Carthage
B. Provincia
C. Britain
D. Attica
Seneca the Elder, Seneca the Younger, and Lucan were all born in Corduba, a city in what
province?
A. Hispania
B. Britannia
C. Macedonia
D. Syria
One can still find remains of what structure between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth?
A. Hadrian's Wall
B. Via Appia
C. Fosse Way
D. Antonine Wall
Constantine defeated Maxentius in A. D. 312 at the Battle of the Mulvian Bridge, also called the
Battle of Saxa Rubra. Where is that in relation to the city?
A. south
B. west
C. north
D. east
For questions 76-100, refer to the attached map. Select the number on the map that identifies
the stated location.
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Forum of Augustus
A. 4
B. 8
Arch of Titus
A. 18
B. 31
Temple of Juno Moneta
A. 12
B. 25
Curia Julia
A. 9
B. 26
Temple to the Deified Vespasian
A. 15
B. 14
Basilica Aemilia
A. 30
B. 24
C. 10
D. 3
C. 27
D. 29
C. 11
D. 23
C. 15
D. 20
C. 17
D. 16
C. 22
D. 28
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Trajan's Column
A. 27
B. 29
C. 1
Temple of Castor and Pollux
A. 17
B. 20
C. 25
Mamertine prison
A. 14
B. 15
C. 19
Temple to Venus Genetrix
A. 5
B. 9
C. 23
Rostra of the Empire
A. 18
B. 15
C. 19
Nerva's Forum Transitorium
A. 3
B. 4
C. 6
Temple to the Deified Julius Caesar
A. 26
B. 25
C. 23
Temple to Jupiter Optimus Maximus
A. 17
B. 11
C. 8
Basilica Ulpia
A. 30
B. 2
C. 22
Temple of Vesta
A. 27
B. 23
C. 29
Arch of Septimius Severus
A. 18
B. 31
C. 19
Basilica of Constantine
A. 22
B. 24
C. 30
Temple to the Deified Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina
A. 20
B. 15
C. 25
Vespasian's Forum of Peace
A. 3
B. 10
C. 4
Temple of Concord
A. 16
B. 15
C. 17
Temple to Mars Ultor
A. 12
B. 11
C. 9
Tabularium
A. 22
B. 24
C. 28
Temple to Saturn
A. 20
B. 17
C. 23
Lacus Curtius
A. 21
B. 27
C. 29
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D. 21
D. 23
D. 21
D. 25
D. 29
D. 8
D. 20
D. 12
D. 30
D. 26
D. 1
D. 8
D. 29
D. 8
D. 14
D. 5
D. 13
D. 25
D. 14
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