Punishment Quiz

Example Questions From the Test

• 1What most clearly distinguished ostracism in classical Athens from an ordinary criminal conviction?
  • It was a citizen vote that imposed temporary exile without requiring a criminal conviction.
  • It permanently enslaved a person after a court trial.
  • It confined debtors until their families paid what was owed.
  • It required an accused person to undergo a physical ordeal.
• 3In the Roman military practice of decimation, how was a mutinous or seriously disobedient unit punished?
  • Every officer was stripped of rank and sent into exile.
  • The entire unit was assigned permanent forced labor.
  • The unit fought another legion in a public arena.
  • Approximately one soldier in ten was selected by lot and killed.
• 4An English court sends a convicted person across the ocean to work for a fixed term in a colony. Which punishment is this?
  • Penal servitude at home
  • Penal transportation
  • Voluntary indenture
  • Ecclesiastical penance