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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hercules Atlas know for?
(a) Being willing to do anything asked for money.
(b) Being very strong and displaying violent behavior when drunk.
(c) Being in love with Clitumna.
(d) Being able to procure poisons that are undetectable.

2. Who lets Marius know of the news of what has been happening in Rome?
(a) Sulla.
(b) Julilia.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Julia.

3. Why does Caesar want to think about Sulla's proposition that he marry Julilia?
(a) He is unsure of Julilia's wishes.
(b) He is suspicious of all of the deaths around Sulla.
(c) He is surprised by this sudden development.
(d) He is upset with the deceit Julilia has maintained.

4. Why does Sulla leave Rome for a month?
(a) He is tired of fighting with his stepmother's nephew.
(b) He needs to offer citizenship to all Italians.
(c) He has been contracted to assassinate Jugurtha.
(d) He takes his stepmother away for a holiday.

5. On which holiday does this novel begin?
(a) New Year's Day.
(b) Passover.
(c) Easter.
(d) Christmas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sulla ensure Hercules will not tell his part in the deception?

2. Who prepare Nicopolis's will?

3. Who does Marius decide he will marry?

4. Which of the following is now an important senator?

5. What does Marius want to happen?

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