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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is given to the public for free at the Ludi Meglenses?
(a) Food.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) All of these.
(d) Clothing.

2. How long was Caesar gone, when he returns at the beginning of the book?
(a) 13 months.
(b) 11 months.
(c) 15 months.
(d) 9 months.

3. When does Servelia give birth to Caesar's daughter?
(a) September.
(b) October.
(c) August.
(d) November.

4. What fascinates Caesar in the fire of Vesta?
(a) The pictoglyphs.
(b) All of these.
(c) The blueprints of the city.
(d) Ancient Laws.

5. How does Cato describe Caesar's festivals?
(a) Fantastic.
(b) Disorderly.
(c) Extravagant.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caesar tell Crassus to profit from?

2. What does Caesar rely on to win the Pontifus Maximus election?

3. How does Brutus's betrothed feel about Brutus?

4. Why does Caesar think the current First Man in Rome will fall?

5. What are the Ludi Meglenses called?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Servelia tell her husband of her affair?

2. What does Clodius do after being robbed?

3. What makes up the bulk of Caepio's wealth?

4. How does Cato get a good reputation with the lower-class Romans?

5. What does Servelia do when Brutus is called to war?

6. What does Caesar rely on to get elected as the Pontifus Maximus?

7. How does Ptolemny get on Clodius's revenge list?

8. How are the Vestal Virgins appointed, and what is required of them?

9. What does Fulvia demand of Clodius after their marriage, and what is Clodius's response to this?

10. What is the difference between Patricians and Plebeians?

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