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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Crassus often loan money?
2. Whom does Marius marry?
3. What happens to Metella, Sulla's wife, during one of his banquets?
4. What part did family play in Crassus's childhood?
5. What does Crassus ignore during his first winter in Syria?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to Crassus's son?
2. Where does the expression, "one of Marius's mules" originate?
3. How does Sulla attempt to interfere with Pompey the Great's life?
4. What is significant about the way Sulla takes control of Rome?
5. How does the civil war between Marius and Sulla start, and what is the result of it?
6. How does Caesar affect the political career of Crassus?
7. How does Sulla rule over Rome for the second time?
8. What questionable things does Marius do during his sixth term as consul?
9. How does Crassus die and what do the Parthians do after his death?
10. How does Rex Warner describe Plutarch's biography of Marius and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Plutarch uses the comparisons of other figures to illustrate the character of the Roman leaders that he describes in "Fall of the Roman Republic". For each of the following, explain the comparison made by Plutarch, what it displays for each figure, and what it adds to the biography of that specific Roman leader.
1) Marius and Plato.
2) Sulla and Lysander.
3) Crassus and Nicias.
4) Pompey and Agesilaus.
5) Cicero and Demosthenes.
6) Caesar and Marius.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the war between Marius and Metellus, chronicling how it begins, the reasons why it becomes so intense, and the effect its ending has on Marius's career as a Roman leader.
Essay Topic 3
Write an in depth essay about Crassus's personality traits, focusing on his main vice, avarice. Use examples and events to explain how his pension for greed affected both his political and military career.
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