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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, A Strange Madness, The Battle for the Republic, 50-48 B.C..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the main charge in the first Catilinarian conspiracy?
(a) Theft.
(b) Attempted murder.
(c) Extortion.
(d) Bribery.

2. Which part of the Forum did Everitt detail at length?
(a) Its landscape, buildings, and modern replications of it.
(b) Its buildings and modern replications of it.
(c) Its landscape and modern replications of it.
(d) Its landscape and buildings.

3. When did Cicero arrive in Cicilia?
(a) 50 B.C.
(b) 51 B.C.
(c) 52 B.C.
(d) 49 B.C.

4. What were Cicero and his allies able to reveal support for in Chapter 10?
(a) Lower taxes.
(b) Trade.
(c) Compromise.
(d) New laws.

5. How was the city of Rome described in Chapter 3?
(a) Well planned and constructed, but dangerous in many places.
(b) Well planned and constructed, and safe.
(c) Unplanned, chaotically built, but not dangerous.
(d) Unplanned, chaotically built, and dangerous in many places.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which political problems were at the source of the crisis for the Roman Empire?

2. What part of the Republic's modernization was the source of tension between Caesar and Pompey?

3. According to Cicero in his speech to the Senators in Chapter 4, what did their reputation depend on?

4. What were the Quaestors mainly responsible for?

5. When did Cicero return to Rome in order to plan his first political campaign?

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