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Julius Caesar Multiple Choice

How much do you know about Julius Caesar (100-44 BC)?
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1. What kind of a name is Julius, as in Julius Caesar?
a family name ✓
a first name ✓
a byname ✓
His first name was Gaius, and Caesar was a byname
2. How was the name Caesar pronounced, in all likelihood?
ˈsiːzər (see-zer) ✓
kae̯.sar (kuy-sarr) ✓
The German word Kaiser is pronounced similarly
3. As a young man, Caesar was captured by pirates. How did he react?
He won his freedom in life-or-death duels against all of them ✓
He broke out in tears, leading to a shameful return to Rome ✓
He considered the ransom an insult to his status, and demanded that they raise it ✓
4. He was a member of this political faction
Optimares - conservatives, pro-aristocracy ✓
Populares - populists, pro-commoners ✓
His uncle Gaius Marius also belonged to it.
5. During a senatorial debate, Caesar received a letter. His enemy Cato, suspecting it had to do with a conspiracy, compelled him to read it out loud. It turned out to be...?
A grocery list from Caesar's wife ✓
A warning that a Gaul army stood before Rome ✓
A love letter from Servilia, Cato's sister ✓
6. For some time, the three most powerful men formed a group that was known as the triumvirate. Besides Caesar, who belonged to it?
Pompey and Crassus ✓
Gaius Marius and Sulla ✓
Augustus and Tiberius ✓
7. Caesar first wrote about Germanic peoples. What is noteworthy about that?
These peoples didn't call themselves "Germanic" at the time ✓
Up to this point, Romans believed that no people lived east of the Rhine ✓
8. When someone brought him the head of his major opponent during the civil war, Pompey, what did Caesar do?
He cried bitter tears ✓
He laughed and kicked the head into the sea ✓
He made the messenger his deputy ✓
Caesar considered Pompey a friend of old days and a potential future ally
9. Cato the Younger was known as a fierce enemy of Caesar. What happened after the latter seized power?
Cato was quartered, burned, and his remains eaten by hyenas ✓
Cato switched sides and became Caesar's closest ally ✓
Caesar pardoned Cato, who then killed himself ✓
Caesar was known for his "clementia", willingness to reconcile. Cato was known for his stubborness.
10. Caesar, Jesus, Cicero and Augustus all lived at the same time. True or false?
False ✓
True ✓
Jesus is the odd one. He was born some 40 years after Caesar's death.
11. Caesar served in an office known as pontifex maximus. Who is known by that title nowadays?
the coach of the football club AS Roma ✓
the Pope ✓
the president of Italy ✓
The pontifex maximus was the highest priest in the Roman republic. From Augustus on, it become merged with the other duties of an emperor.
12. This Egyptian queen was Caesar's lover and, after his death, turned to Mark Antony.
Hatshepsut ✓
Nefertiti ✓
Cleopatra ✓
13. For which reason did Brutus kill Caesar?
Caesar slept with Brutus' mother and everyone knew it ✓
Brutus wanted Caesar's powers for himself ✓
Brutus believed in the republic and thought Caesar was too powerful ✓
Caesar sleeping with Brutus' mom is also true though. It is Servilia of question #5.
14. He says this in William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar": "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
Cassius ✓
Mark Antony ✓
Plutarch ✓
15. Which of these words for "emperor" does not derive from Caesar?
Tsar ✓
Kaiser ✓
Király ✓
Király is the Hungarian word for king
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