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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 does Crassus buy after Sulla takes control of Rome?
(a) Militants.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Land.
(d) Livestock.

2. What does Mithridates do to end the war with Sulla?
(a) He defeats Sulla.
(b) He sues for peace.
(c) He captures most of Sulla's men.
(d) He surrenders.

3. What decree does Sulla make when he controls Rome?
(a) That he is doubling the size of the military.
(b) The he is reducing the size of the military.
(c) That his past acts are exonerated.
(d) That his relatives' past acts are exonerated.

4. Why does Metellus first decline Marius's request to return to Rome to seek the consulate?
(a) He and Marius are bitter enemies.
(b) He is supporting another candidate for the consulate.
(c) He is trying to protect Marius.
(d) He needs Marius to help him with the war.

5. How many brothers did Crassus have?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Crassus's biggest vice?

2. What role does Andromachus play in the plans Crassus has to avoid the Parthians?

3. In which war does Sulla serve under Marius?

4. What plagues Crassus on his plight in Syria?

5. What does Valeria pluck from Sulla's toga before they are eventually married?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marius's first military experience inspire him to pursue greater accomplishments?

2. Where does the expression, "one of Marius's mules" originate?

3. What happens to Crassus's family and why does he return to Rome?

4. What kinds of omens does Crassus receive on his way to Syria and how does he respond to them?

5. What is significant about the way Sulla takes control of Rome?

6. How does Crassus originally face the Parthians?

7. How does Sulla attempt to interfere with Pompey the Great's life?

8. What happens between Crassus and the Spartans that shows his view of war?

9. Why does Sulla give up the dictatorship and how does he live his life at this point?

10. What is Crassus's plan to escape from the Parthians?

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