A) A Roman triumphal column B) A triumphal arch C) A temple dedicated to Mars D) A Roman aqueduct
A) Marcus Aurelius's victory in the Marcomannic Wars B) Augustus's victory in the Gallic Wars C) Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars D) Julius Caesar's victory over Pompey
A) Apollodorus of Damascus B) Rabirius C) Vitruvius D) Agrippa
A) Emperor Hadrian B) The Roman Senate C) The Praetorian Guard D) The Roman People
A) In Trajan's Forum B) Near the Colosseum C) In the Campus Martius D) In the Roman Forum
A) 117 AD B) 12 May 113 AD C) 1587 AD D) 101 AD
A) Its massive bronze statue B) Its hidden treasury room C) Its spiral bas relief D) Its height
A) 35 metres (115 feet) B) 50 metres (164 feet) C) 30 metres (98 feet) D) 20 metres (66 feet)
A) Granite blocks B) Red brick C) Carrara marble drums D) Travertine limestone
A) 15 B) 25 C) 10 D) 20
A) 32 tons B) 10 tons C) 100 tons D) 53.3 tons
A) 250-metre (820-foot) B) 190-metre (620-foot) C) 300-metre (984-foot) D) 100-metre (328-foot)
A) 15 times B) 30 times C) 23 times D) 10 times
A) 250 steps B) 300 steps C) 100 steps D) 185 steps
A) A viewing deck B) An altar to Jupiter C) A secret burial chamber D) A water reservoir
A) 32 tons B) 53.3 tons C) 100 tons D) 15 tons
A) A statue of a wolf B) A statue of a lion C) A statue of Victory D) A statue of a bird, probably an eagle
A) A statue of Augustus B) A statue of Trajan C) A statue of an eagle D) A statue of Saint Peter
A) In the 19th century B) During the Renaissance C) In the Middle Ages D) In antiquity
A) Pope Gregory XIII B) Pope Sixtus V C) Pope Leo X D) Pope Julius II
A) Two basilicas of justice B) Two sections of the Ulpian Library C) Two residential villas D) Two temples of the imperial cult
A) A public chamber and a private chamber B) A Roman chamber and an Egyptian chamber C) A Greek chamber and a Latin chamber D) A philosophical chamber and a legal chamber
A) Marble busts of emperors B) Bronze statues of philosophers C) Wooden bookcases for scrolls D) Painted murals of battles
A) His commentary on the Dacian Wars, the Dacica B) His personal memoirs, the Commentarii C) His letters to Pliny the Younger D) His military manual on bridge building
A) 3,000 figures B) 2,662 figures C) 1,500 figures D) 500 figures
A) 50 scenes B) 155 scenes C) 500 scenes D) 230 scenes
A) 10 times B) 58 times C) 25 times D) 100 times
A) A traditional Greek design B) A copy of Egyptian obelisks C) An architectural innovation D) A failed artistic experiment
A) Nero B) Marcus Aurelius C) Augustus D) Constantine
A) It stays the exact same width B) From 0.5 metres to 2 metres C) From 2 metres to 1 metre D) From about 1 metre to 1.2 metres
A) In reverse order B) Chronologically separated by text C) In isolated square frames D) Continuously
A) No perspective is used at all B) Strict linear perspective is always maintained C) Only aerial perspectives are used D) A variety of different perspectives are used to reveal more
A) The Parthian War B) The second campaign (105–106) C) The first campaign (101–102) D) The Gallic Wars
A) The first campaign (101–102) B) The second campaign (105–106) C) The Germanic Wars D) The civil wars
A) They were purely fictional future wars B) They happened during the Republic C) They were contemporary to the time of construction D) They occurred centuries before construction
A) Gladiatorial combat B) Senate debate C) Imperial address (adlocutio) D) Naval defeat
A) Supplicatio B) Consecratio C) Lustratio D) Sacrificio
A) Reditus B) Profectio C) Triumphus D) Expeditio
A) They take up exactly half of the column B) They make up the majority of the frieze C) They are very much a minority D) They are completely absent
A) Orderly soldiers carrying out ceremony and construction B) Triumphal parades through Rome C) Political negotiations in the Senate D) Panicked retreats and chaotic skirmishes
A) To establish a temporary trading outpost B) To exact a one-time monetary tribute C) To completely annihilate the local population D) To incorporate and integrate Dacia into the Roman Empire as a province
A) They appear only in the upper half B) They are nonexistent C) They are limited to the background D) They are shown in great detail
A) The urban population of Rome B) The Roman legionaries stationed abroad C) Foreign ambassadors visiting the capital D) The conquered Dacian nobility
A) Their fear of grain shortages B) Their fear of foreign naval invasions C) Their fear and distrust of the army D) Their distrust of the Senate
A) A man of justice, clemency, moderation, and restraint B) A religious prophet and reformer C) An austere and unyielding dictator D) A ruthless conqueror of nations
A) A peaceful commercial partnership B) A more total conquest of the province than had previously been achieved C) The construction of a temporary road network D) An ecological disaster caused by the Romans
A) 10 of the 50 trees B) 5 of the 500 trees C) 100 of the 200 trees D) 48 of the 224 trees
A) An inscription dedicated to Jupiter B) A large portrait of Emperor Trajan C) A carving of a sacrificial bull D) A personification of victory writing on a shield flanked by trophies
A) The burning of the Dacian capital B) The assassination of Decebalus C) The great sacrifice by the Danube bridge D) The signing of the initial peace treaty
A) King Burebista B) Emperor Trajan C) Apollodorus of Damascus D) The Dacian king Decebalus
A) Gunpowder cannons B) Greek fire siphons C) A ballista or catapult D) Steel crossbows
A) 50 types B) 37 types C) 10 types D) 12 types
A) Veristic style B) Gothic style C) Abstract style D) Idealized classical style
A) They occupy and define the margins of the scenes B) They occupy the central heroic positions C) They appear only on the top viewing platform D) They are completely absent from all scenes
A) Female figures were reserved only for coins B) Dacian women did not wear clothes C) Mortal females in Roman state art are so rare D) Women were forbidden from entering Rome
A) The idea of democratic political alliances B) The strength of Dacian military resistance C) The idea of subjugation by feminizing the foreign conquered D) The importance of agricultural labor
A) The mourning of fallen soldiers B) The mass suicide scene C) The torture scene D) The abduction of the Sabine women
A) Roman women defending a burning fort B) Four Dacian women torturing two naked men C) Dacian priests sacrificing animals D) Roman soldiers torturing Dacian captives
A) An abstract allegorical effect B) A surreal mythological effect C) A strong effect of verisimilitude D) A humorous caricature effect
A) As mythological fiction B) As theatrical stage performances C) As objective historical truth D) As prophetic visions of the future
A) He is hidden among the crowd in disguise B) He is depicted realistically making 58 appearances C) He is depicted as a giant god making 100 appearances D) He appears only once at the very top
A) Roman culinary recipes and dining habits B) Roman and barbarian arms, methods of warfare, and costume C) Greek theatrical scripts and music D) Early Christian religious rituals
A) Forts, ships, and weapons B) Chariot race tracks C) Agricultural windmills D) Gladiatorial arenas
A) A collection of poetry about Rome B) Trajan's lost commentary on the Dacian Wars C) A map of the Danube river D) A legal code written by Apollodorus
A) Be echoed in the spiralling, sculpted narrative design of the column B) Be read aloud during Senate meetings C) Be buried inside the column's pedestal D) Serve as a textbook for Roman children
A) To store military weapons B) To burn oil lamps for lighting C) To display marble busts of conquered kings D) To hold wooden bookcases for scrolls
A) Milan B) Naples C) Rome D) Florence
A) Spanish B) Italian C) Greek D) Latin
A) French B) Latin C) German D) Italian
A) West B) South C) East D) North
A) Egyptian obelisks B) Numerous victory columns, both ancient and modern C) Roman triumphal arches D) Medieval clock towers
A) An external stone ramp B) A wooden ladder C) A system of pulley ropes D) A spiral staircase
A) About 20 metres (66 feet) B) About 34 metres (112 feet) C) About 15 metres (49 feet) D) About 50 metres (164 feet)
A) A bronze figure of Saint Peter B) A silver figure of an eagle C) A gold figure of an angel D) A bronze figure of Trajan
A) Gold coins B) Statues of gods C) Armour and shields D) Scrolls
A) Exactly 1,000 figures B) Over 5,000 figures C) 500 figures D) About 2,500 figures
A) Farmers, merchants, artists and slaves B) Sailors, soldiers, statesmen and priests C) Gladiators, actors, musicians and poets D) Doctors, lawyers, architects and builders
A) Crossing the Rubicon B) Crossing the Rhine into Germania C) Crossing the Euphrates in the East D) The first crossing of the Danube by the Roman legion
A) Trajan's voyage to Britain B) Trajan's voyage up the Danube C) Trajan's voyage down the Tiber D) Trajan's voyage across the Mediterranean
A) The surrender of the Dacians B) The surrender of the Carthaginians C) The surrender of the Parthians D) The surrender of the Gauls
A) The assault on the Dacian capital B) The assault on Carthage C) The assault on Alesia D) The assault on Jerusalem
A) Toward the northernmost point B) In the exact geographic center C) Outside the main gates D) At the southern entrance
A) Victor Duruy B) Paul Veyne C) Jean-Pierre Champollion D) Gaston Boissier
A) Charlemagne B) Augustus C) Julius Caesar D) Napoleon
A) Ostracism B) Exile C) Deification D) Manumission
A) 110 B) 98 C) 117 D) 138
A) Marble B) Silver C) Bronze D) Gold
A) Circumambulation B) Chanting C) Genuflection D) Fastings
A) With a titulus B) With a dot C) With manuscript lettering D) With Roman square capitals
A) Warren Chappell B) Edward Gibbon C) Frederic Goudy D) Carol Twombly
A) Edward Catich B) Warren Chappell C) Antoninus Pius D) Edward Gibbon
A) 6 window slits B) 185 window slits C) 29 window slits D) 43 window slits
A) Place Vendôme B) Capitoline Temple C) Basilica Ulpia D) Trajan's Market
A) 29 blocks B) 19 blocks C) 185 blocks D) 14 blocks
A) 29 blocks B) 185 blocks C) 19 blocks D) 43 blocks
A) The Capitoline Hill B) Austerlitz C) Dacia D) Germany
A) Twelve B) Eight C) Two D) Four
A) Filippo Brunelleschi B) Donato Bramante C) Michelangelo Buonarroti D) Domenico Fontana
A) Rome B) Mainz C) London D) Bucharest
A) A team from the Victoria and Albert Museum B) The German Archaeological Institute C) Conrad Cichorius D) An anonymous Roman historian |