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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 does Marius believe will be of greater incentive to the head-count army?
(a) Awards and medals.
(b) Positions in the Senate.
(c) Land in Africa.
(d) Additional funds.

2. What controversy does Saturninus hope to stir up in hopes it will get him re-elected?
(a) That Glaucia is not a traitor.
(b) That the Senate is withholding grain.
(c) That Marius is no longer capable of being consul.
(d) That senators do not uphold laws passed.

3. What does Caepio do about the final orders?
(a) He moves his own army north of Mallius's and waits there.
(b) He moves his own army ahead of Mallius's to attack first.
(c) He eventually combines the two armies.
(d) He moves his army back to Rome to complain.

4. What oath does Saturninus make the senators take?
(a) One to make terms for Tribune's longer.
(b) One to make elections further apart.
(c) One to make Saturninus a senator.
(d) One to uphold the law regardless of what it is.

5. What does Caepio find when he arrives in Gaul?
(a) The Germans are already engaged in another battle.
(b) All of the Germans were killed by the natives to this region.
(c) Most of the Germans residing there have already left.
(d) He needs to travel even farther to be successful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things does Publius find in the cave?

2. Where is Caepio being sent?

3. How does Sulla decide Jugurtha should be executed?

4. Which of the following characters is the newly elected consul?

5. Which of the following characters beats a senator to death for ripping off his toga?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the idea of two separate Triumphs repellent and what does Marius suggest instead?

2. How does Caepio spend his time once he deals with the few barbarians left in the area?

3. What is Marius's plan for ending the war in Africa for once and all?

4. What does Marius realize about the German's food supply?

5. What happens to the gold that Caepio has sent on its way to a city near Rome and how does he react?

6. What message does Marius tell Sulla to deliver to King Bocchus?

7. What does Scaurus believe about the grain prices and what repercussions does this belief lead to?

8. What is Publius an expert on and what does he hope to do some day?

9. What new bill does Saturninus introduce and what are the repercussions of this introduction?

10. Why does King Bocchus become involved in the war in Africa?

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