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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 does Marius hope his campaign will do?

2. What does Marius want to happen?

3. How are Marius and Gaius Julius Caesar related?

4. How does Sulla ensure Hercules will not tell his part in the deception?

5. Why were Cassius's troops defeated?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sulla find out that the mushroom Nicopolis was picking was poisonous and what did he do about it?

2. What does Caesar ask Marius when he invites him over for dinner?

3. What attitude has Julilla adopted about Marius?

4. What does Caesar confide to Marius privately about Sulla and how does Marius react?

5. What is Sulla's heritage and how does he currently live?

6. Why was Julilla starving herself and what was the response to this action?

7. Why is Bomilcar unhappy with Jugurtha?

8. Why was Silanus intentionally left behind while the others left for the mission in Africa?

9. When Metellus finally releases Marius from his African service what does he believe will happen and w hat does actually happen?

10. How does Marius respond to the complaints and issues the Senators bring up about his proposed bill?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of man is Sulla? Why do you think he was successful with Marius? What do you think will happen to him without the army and Marius?

Essay Topic 2

At the beginning of the novel, Sulla murders numerous people. Why does he take these actions? How does he react to these situations? Are his actions justified? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

From the beginning of the novel, Marius believes he is destined for greatness. How do you think this belief about himself has helped him to achieve what he has at the end of the novel? What do you think would have happened had he not had this belief?

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