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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. How does Roscius react to the information about Elena and her baby?

2. What upsets Rufus during a song poking fun at Sulla?

3. Who are Magnus and Capito?

4. After talking with Carus, Gordianus goes to the home of ______________.

5. Rufus admits to Gordianus that _________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Titus and the other local landowners do to try to restore the land to Roscius (filius)?

2. Chapters 16-26 are in a section called Portents. What does that signify?

3. What is suspicious about what Carus tells Gordianus?

4. Did Roscius's name get restored and the land returned to his son? Explain.

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

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

7. On the second visit to Carus, what does Gordianus find out?

8. How does Gordianus convince Rufus to attend the party in honor of Sulla?

9. How does Roscia's confession affect Tiro?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As information begins to accumulate in the Portents section of the novel, Cicero realizes he is in a very hard spot. Examine his predicament and his options.

Essay Topic 2

The subject is patricide, or murder of a father. What other works of literature have you read/studied that involve the murder of a father by a son/daughter? Compare at least two of those with Roman Blood.

Essay Topic 3

If Sextus Roscius really was guilty, what was the point of it all?

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