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

2. What is the most important piece of information that Felix and Chrestus tell Gordianus?
(a) Why Chrysogonus wanted the land.
(b) Who really killed Rosicus (pater).
(c) Where Roscius was the night his father was killed.
(d) What happened to Elena and her baby.

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

4. What did Gordianus figure out from the two attacks on his house?
(a) That Roscius is not who everyone thinks he is.
(b) That he can no longer stay in Rome.
(c) That someone in Cicero's circle is leaking information.
(d) That Cicero is trying to kill him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Gordianus and Tiro finally exit Chrysogonus's house?

2. Who is Chrysogonus?

3. How does Cicero respond to Roscia's story when Gordianus tells it to him?

4. How does Gordianus react when Titus mentions the name Chrysogonus?

5. After the petition by Titus and fellow landowners, what became of Roscius (filius)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gordianus find out about Roscia that impacts him greatly?

2. Why does Gordianus want to be invited to dinner at the home of Titus Megarus?

3. Titus Megarus confirms what suspicions of Gordianus?

4. Who bought Roscius's property at auction?

5. What is suspicious about what Carus tells Gordianus?

6. When Gordianus returns to Rome, he once again talks with Roscius (filius). What does he find out?

7. Do you think the old blind man at the tavern is wise? Or crazy?

8. How do Gordianus and Cicero figure out who is leaking information about their investigation?

9. Gordianus goes to the Roscius's villa. Does he have a plan?

10. After finding out all he could in Ameria, Gordianus is ready to return to Rome. What does he do first?

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