| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| two were elected every 5 years; they served 18 months; they revised the citizenship roll by performing a census and could strike out names if people were behaving inappropriately (thus, out term censorship); they also had responsibility over public building projects, like roads and aquaducts | censor | 100%
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| chief magistrates; two ___ were selected each year to serve a 1 year term; ___ alternated control each day; one could not be reelected until ___ 10 years past | consuls | 100%
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| sequence of public offices a successful politician might ascend; quaestor, then praetor, then consul (chief executive). Two consuls were elected each year | cursus honorum | 100%
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| called in times of severe emergency to assume consular authority; one man was chosen to serve for 6 months | dictator | 100%
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| administrators of games and other public services | aediles | 50%
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| judges | praetors | 50%
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| treasurers | quaestors | 50%
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| filled in if both consuls were killed or resigned | consul suffectus | 0%
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| bundle of rods and an axe that symbolized the consuls' absolute power | fasces | 0%
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| accompanied consuls and carried fasces | lictors | 0%
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| someone who didn't come from a family of aristocratic officeholders | novus homo (new man) | 0%
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