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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 Sulla require Pompey the Great to do?
(a) Leave the military.
(b) Commit suicide.
(c) Leave Rome.
(d) Divorce his wife.

2. What happens to the servant who betrays Sulpicius?
(a) He is thrown to his death.
(b) He is allowed to fight in the military.
(c) He is given a political position.
(d) He is exiled.

3. What does Warner indicate is exaggerated by Plutarch?
(a) Marius's education.
(b) Marius's war skills.
(c) The number of battles Marius was involved in.
(d) The number of children Marius had.

4. Who is killed when Marius and Cinna take over Rome?
(a) Crassus's friend.
(b) Crassus's entire family.
(c) Crassus's father and brother.
(d) Crassus's uncle and cousin.

5. What is Crassus's biggest vice?
(a) Avarice.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Revenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Metella, Sulla's wife, during one of his banquets?

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

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

4. What does Crassus buy after Sulla takes control of Rome?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What questionable things does Marius do during his sixth term as consul?

3. How does Sulla rule over Rome for the second time?

4. What is interesting about Sulla's funeral and the inscription on his burial stone?

5. What is Crassus's main vice, and how is this displayed?

6. What happens to Crassus's son?

7. How does Crassus originally face the Parthians?

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

9. How does Crassus die and what do the Parthians do after his death?

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

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