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

2. What plagues Crassus on his plight in Syria?
(a) His conscience.
(b) A lack of supplies.
(c) Bad omens.
(d) Sickness.

3. What is Sulla the first Roman to do, pertaining to the Parthians?
(a) He is the first to be captured and released by the Parthians.
(b) He is the first to be attacked by the Parthians.
(c) He is the first to be made the general of the Parthians' army.
(d) He is the first to be approached by the Parthians for an alliance.

4. What tactic does Sulla employ to overcome his men's fear of war?
(a) He belittles them repeatedly.
(b) He threatens them.
(c) He subjects them to manual labor.
(d) He kills one of them as an example.

5. Who prompts Sulla to attack Rome, after initially hesitating?
(a) A soothsayer.
(b) Marius.
(c) A relative.
(d) Jugurtha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mithridates do to end the war with Sulla?

2. What law does Marius put into effect upon being voted to the office of tribune?

3. Whose endorsement does Marius have when he is voted to the office of tribune?

4. What decree does Sulla make when he controls Rome?

5. How does Mummius respond to Crassus's instructions against the Spartans at the arc?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Marius distinguish himself when he is voted into the office of tribune?

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

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

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

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

7. What age does Marius retire from the leadership command position in the military, and what does he do afterward?

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

9. What happens to Sulla's wife, Metella, and what does Sulla do?

10. How does Rex Warner describe Plutarch's biography of Marius and why?

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