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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 causes Lepidus to die?
(a) He commits suicide.
(b) Pompey kills him.
(c) Illness.
(d) A letter detailing his wife's unfaithfulness.

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

3. What is Pompey known for occasionally doing with captured nobles?
(a) Allowing them to escape.
(b) Beheading them.
(c) Burning them.
(d) Convincing them to join his army.

4. What causes Cicero's second divorce?
(a) His return to public office.
(b) His time away from home.
(c) His daughter's death.
(d) His wife's unfaithfulness.

5. What does Clodius unsuccessfully attempt to do while Cicero is away?
(a) Auction off Cicero's property.
(b) Pass a law banning Cicero from Rome.
(c) Move into Cicero's house.
(d) Find where Cicero is.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Caesar do on his way back to Rome?

3. Why does Pompey refuse to help Cicero face Clodius?

4. What age is Pompey when he is killed?

5. What reason does Considius give for his general lack of fear?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the rivalry between Cicero and Clodius begin?

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

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

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. What happens to Pompey at Mitylene, and how does he end up going to Egypt?

7. What causes the Egyptians to betray Pompey, how does he die, and what is Caesar's reaction?

8. What is significant about the way Pompey begins his military career?

9. What actions does Caesar make following the deaths of his aunt and wife that endear him to the people of Rome?

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

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