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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. What age is Cicero when he is killed?

2. What does Cicero occasionally do in order to garner glory?

3. How is Pompey's father, Strabo, generally considered?

4. What does Sulla think Pompey has done with regard to his enemy, Lepidus?

5. Why does Caesar divorce his second wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Plutarch feel about Caesar's military accomplishments and why?

7. What personal problems does Cicero encounter after he retires from public life?

8. How do the people show their support for Caesar when he enters politics and what does Cato do to try to lessen Caesar's popularity at that time?

9. What does Caesar do to build support for himself as a Roman leader after he returns from Gaul, and why is the timing significant?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, including an analysis of all factors surrounding the events that led up to it, how it was waged, and the way that it ended. Use the entire book to provide insight on both men to explain the reasons for their parts in the war, and the overall effect it has on the future of Rome.

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

Describe the period where the political careers of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus all intersected, the reasons for it, which ones were the most influential, and the effect it had on each of the three.

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