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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marius want to happen?
(a) He wants to marry a rich woman.
(b) He wants to hold a new election.
(c) He wants to become consul.
(d) He wants to be respected.

2. What does Marius do with those that surrendered when he took over the castle?
(a) He gives them amnesty.
(b) He tortures them for their secrets.
(c) He drafts them into his army.
(d) He has them killed.

3. How doe the senators feel about the bill Marius has proposed?
(a) Determined.
(b) Scandalized.
(c) Enraged.
(d) Anxious.

4. Which word was used to describe the three army friends?
(a) Outsiders.
(b) Brothers.
(c) Senators.
(d) Leaders.

5. What military campaign is the new counsel planning on beginning?
(a) To trap their enemies outside of the city.
(b) To take over more lands.
(c) To assassinate another senator.
(d) To remove Jugurtha from the throne.

6. How are Marius and Gaius Julius Caesar related?
(a) Uncle and nephew.
(b) Brothers.
(c) Father and son.
(d) They are not related.

7. Who prepare Nicopolis's will?
(a) Gais Caesar.
(b) Sulla.
(c) Julilia.
(d) Clitumna.

8. How much time has passed from the end of chapter one to the beginning of chapter two?
(a) One year.
(b) One month.
(c) One day.
(d) One week.

9. Why does Marius want to return to Rome?
(a) To help defend Rome against the Germans.
(b) To stand for election.
(c) To visit his son and wife.
(d) To further undermine Metellus.

10. How is Clitumna killed?
(a) She is stabbed.
(b) Her neck is broken.
(c) She commits suicide.
(d) She is poisoned.

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

12. What does Caesar want Marius to make sure Sulla is elected?
(a) Senator.
(b) Knight.
(c) Consul.
(d) Quaestor.

13. With whom is Gauda unhappy?
(a) Jugurtha.
(b) Metellus.
(c) Bomilcar.
(d) Marius.

14. What does Nicopolis find on her picnic with Sulla?
(a) A fountain.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Salad greens.
(d) Gold.

15. What happens to Clitumna after Nicopolis dies?
(a) She falls in love with Sulla.
(b) She becomes closer to Julilia.
(c) She tells Gais Caesar that she thinks Nicopolis was murdered.
(d) She becomes very depressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the two deaths, what has Sulla qualified for?

2. On which holiday does this novel begin?

3. What ambition has Sulla lost?

4. Which of the following characters did the three army friends insult?

5. What does Martha say Marius will do seven times?

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