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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mallius Glaucia?
(a) A friend of Gordianus.
(b) A cousin of Roscius.
(c) A former slave of Magnus.
(d) A slave of Cicero.

2. How does Cicero react to the information Gordianus learned in Ameria?
(a) He is worried about involving Sulla.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He is very pleased.
(d) He thinks it's worthless.

3. What is Gordianus's first stop upon returning to Rome from Ameria?
(a) His house.
(b) Cicero's house.
(c) The Forum.
(d) Caecilia's house.

4. Titus Megarus and other landowners tried to petition Sulla to do what?
(a) Divide the farm up among all the Roscii family.
(b) Drop the charges against Roscius (filius).
(c) Sell the land to one of them.
(d) Revoke the edict against Roscius (pater) and return the land to his son.

5. Rufus finally agrees to go to the party. Why?
(a) He is intent on getting drunk and forgetting his troubles.
(b) Gordianus wants to sneak into the house.
(c) He secretly has a crush on Sulla.
(d) Cicero begs him to.

6. Gordianus suspects that the guard has _______________.
(a) Been hired by Sulla.
(b) Already killed Bethesda.
(c) Seen him in the shadows.
(d) Not seen him yet.

7. What does the tavern owner tell Gordianus that he finds hard to believe?
(a) Someone in Ameria saw Roscius kill Gaius.
(b) Roscius was an imposter, and that was not his real name.
(c) Everyone there thinks Roscius was declared an enemy of Sulla.
(d) Roscius (filius) was with him on the night the elder was killed.

8. In Chapter 25, the two slaves tell how Elena died. What was the manner of her death?
(a) She died giving birth to her baby.
(b) She died trying to prevent the Roscii from killing her baby.
(c) She was weak and ill after the birth of her baby, and died in a cart on the way to Rome.
(d) The Roscii cousins killed her immediately.

9. When Gordianus tells Roscius what he learned, how does Roscius respond?
(a) Roscius is stunned.
(b) Roscius is angry that Gordianus went to Ameria.
(c) Roscius confirms all that Gordianus knows.
(d) Roscius wonders if they think he is guilty.

10. What did the second message in blood say?
(a) "Beware the Ides of May."
(b) "If you do not cease this folly, continued plagues shall come down on you."
(c) "The fool disobeyed. Now he is dead. Let a wiser man take a holiday come the holy Ides of May."
(d) "Seek revenge and not justice."

11. When Rufus and Gordianus are alone in Caecilia's garden, they discuss _________________.
(a) Why Magnus and Capito want the land.
(b) That Rufus is convinced Roscius is guilty.
(c) A party in Sulla's honor given by Chrysogonus the following evening.
(d) What Rufus thinks of Chyrsogonus.

12. When Gordianus finally arrives at Roscius's farm, whom does he see in the field?
(a) Luius's family.
(b) Nobody.
(c) Glaucia.
(d) Capito.

13. Gordianus talks to Carus at the door of the farm villa. Who is Carus?
(a) A slave, once of Roscius, now of Capito.
(b) The son of Capito.
(c) A friend of Roscius.
(d) A hired manager of the farm.

14. What happened to Elena's baby, according to Felix and Chrestus?
(a) There never was a baby. Elena lied.
(b) He was thrown on rocks and killed.
(c) He was smuggled out of the house by the midwife.
(d) He died before he was born.

15. In Chapter 22, Tiro admits that_________________.
(a) He is in love with Rosica.
(b) He is afraid for his life.
(c) He has been giving Roscia information.
(d) He hired the guard who said he was from Cicero.

Short Answer Questions

1. After finishing his conversations at the Bleating Lamb, Gordianus continues on to Ameria. He meets __________ on the road.

2. What kind of a place is the Bleating Lamb, where Gordianus stops on his way to Ameria?

3. What was the result of Titus's and the other landowners' petition?

4. Who is the old blind man at the Bleating Lamb?

5. What does Carus show Gordianus on the farm?

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