Great History Challenge Practice Test

This item hinges on knowing the alliance between Marc Antony and Cleopatra and the outcome of their clash with Octavian. Antony joined forces with Cleopatra VII, ruling the eastern Mediterranean, and together they opposed Octavian. The decisive confrontation occurred at the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, where Antony’s forces were defeated. After retreating to Egypt, Antony died by suicide, often said to be by falling on his sword, and Cleopatra followed soon after. This sequence fits someone who allied with Cleopatra, lost to Octavian, and then killed himself.

Julius Caesar did ally with Cleopatra, but he was killed long before Octavian’s rise, so this scenario doesn’t fit. Crassus and Pompey meet different histories and do not align with the described battle against Octavian.