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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cato do to diminish the effects of Caesar's growing popularity?
(a) He increases the amount of livestock the people have.
(b) He increases the people's wages.
(c) He offers the people additional corn.
(d) He offers the people additional grain.

2. What traditional belief does Marius go against in his first consul?
(a) He allows poor men to fight in the military.
(b) He stops all outside trade agreements.
(c) He does not allow poor men to fight in the military.
(d) He begins multiple outside trade agreements.

3. How is Crassus killed?
(a) He is poisoned.
(b) He is attacked by one of his own men.
(c) He becomes ill and never recovers.
(d) He is beheaded.

4. How many men does Caesar have when he returns to free Cicero from the siege of a Gaul uprising?
(a) Five thousand.
(b) Nine thousand.
(c) Three thousand.
(d) Seven thousand.

5. What does Caesar do that many disagree with after his aunt, Julia, dies?
(a) He works to change the laws about burials.
(b) He shows images of Marius.
(c) He shows images of Julia.
(d) He works to return Marius from exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Sulla's death?

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

3. What is Pompey known for occasionally doing with captured nobles?

4. What do some people fear after appointing Caesar the dictator of Rome for life?

5. Why does Metellus first decline Marius's request to return to Rome to seek the consulate?

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