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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are many Romans gathered at the temple?
(a) To watch the swearing in of new consuls.
(b) To elect a new leader for Rome.
(c) To determine the validity of ancestral claims.
(d) To make a sacrifice to the goddess.

2. Why was Julilia starving herself?
(a) To protect herself from being poisoned.
(b) To protest the war.
(c) To get Sulla to admit his love for her.
(d) To gain her father's affection.

3. What does Nicopolis die from?
(a) Childbirth.
(b) Kidney failure.
(c) Poisoning.
(d) Heart failure.

4. What does Jugurtha want his half-brother to find for him?
(a) A wife.
(b) A place to hide.
(c) An assassin.
(d) A member of the senate who can be bribed.

5. Why does Sulla leave Rome for a month?
(a) He takes his stepmother away for a holiday.
(b) He has been contracted to assassinate Jugurtha.
(c) He is tired of fighting with his stepmother's nephew.
(d) He needs to offer citizenship to all Italians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prepare Nicopolis's will?

2. Which group of characters became friends in the army?

3. Why does Caesar invite Marius over for dinner?

4. What ambition has Sulla lost?

5. What was the Destroyer?

(see the answer key)

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