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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Plutarch compare Caesar's military career with Marius, Sulla, and Pompey's?
(a) Caesar's career was more impressive than Marius and Sulla, but equal to Pompey.
(b) Caesar's career was more impressive than Pompey's, but equal to Marius and Sulla.
(c) Caesar's career was more impressive than Marius, but equal to Sulla and Pompey.
(d) Caesar's career was more impressive than all of them.

2. Whose dream warns Caesar of his fate?
(a) Calpurnia.
(b) Pompeia.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Cornelia.

3. Whom does Caesar's daughter eventually marry?
(a) Sulla.
(b) Marius.
(c) Brutus.
(d) Pompey.

4. Who pays Caesar's debt when he is stopped on his way to Spain?
(a) Pompey.
(b) Sulla.
(c) Marius.
(d) Crassus.

5. Why does Pompey want to avoid fighting Caesar?
(a) He has less troops than Caesar.
(b) Bad weather.
(c) He is afraid of Caesar.
(d) Bad omens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Vergentorix, the commander of the Gaul forces, surrender?

2. What is Crassus counting on as he proceeds to face the enemy troops in Syria?

3. What does Caesar do when he is captured by Sulla's men?

4. What happens in Sulla's first bid for praetorship?

5. How does Caesar describe the results of Sulla's second bid for praetorship?

(see the answer key)

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