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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 Cicero do after retiring from public life?
(a) He farms.
(b) He entertains people with his speeches.
(c) He visits relatives.
(d) He writes.

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

3. How is Pompey's father, Strabo, generally considered?
(a) He is envied.
(b) He is feared.
(c) He is liked.
(d) He is hated.

4. What does Cicero occasionally do in order to garner glory?
(a) He risks his life to provide stories to tell.
(b) He associates with those who have accomplished great things.
(c) He takes the stories of others as his own.
(d) He magnifies his achievements.

5. What does Caesar do when he is captured by Sulla's men?
(a) He escapes when they are not looking.
(b) He kills one of them and is released.
(c) He uses bribery to free himself.
(d) He tricks them into thinking Sulla has ordered his release.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Caesar's daughter eventually marry?

2. Who gives Pompey the nickname, "The Great"?

3. What do the people fear when the senate session lasts longer than normal?

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

5. How many people join Cicero's appeal to the city when he is called upon to defend the death penalty imposed on Catiline's men?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Caesar die and why has the event become so famous?

2. Why does Cicero leave Rome after he draws the ire of Clodius, and how does he return?

3. What age is Pompey when he does battle with Caesar and what happens when the two first meet?

4. What does Cicero's name mean, why was he given it, and how does his response to it indicate his sense of humor?

5. How do the differences between Caesar and Pompey lead to Caesar becoming the dictator of Rome, and what does he do with the position?

6. Why does Cicero retire from public life, and what do his plans include at this point in his life?

7. What is interesting about how the battle between Pompey and Sertorius ends, and Pompey's decision afterward?

8. What kind of reputation does Pompey have with regard to the way he treats enemy soldiers?

9. What is Cicero's educational background and how does it contribute to the decisions made early in his career?

10. What is the dilemma Cicero faces upon discovering the plan by Catiline's forces that remain in Rome?

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