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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Conspiracy of Catiline XXXVII-XLIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cicero decide to do about what he knows?
(a) Go to the Senate.
(b) Raise an army.
(c) Go to Africa until it blows over.
(d) Send out assassins.

2. How does Sallust feel about the answer to question #35?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Begrudging respect.
(d) Depression.

3. What is Manilos doing in Etrupia?
(a) Getting the poor people on Catiline's side.
(b) Assassinating the officials there.
(c) Raising food for an army.
(d) Governing the district.

4. What does Sallust think a reader of history believes?
(a) History is generally boring.
(b) It is completely accurate.
(c) It is always censored.
(d) It is written with a bias.

5. What does the Senate do about Catiline after Catulus reads a letter from him?
(a) Declare him an enemy of the state.
(b) Arrest him and hang him.
(c) Call him in for elections.
(d) Arrest his wife and children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the early Roman society morally sound?

2. How does Sallust view the body?

3. Where does Catiline send his best men?

4. Who does Cicero arrange to wait under the Milvian Bridge?

5. Where does Cicero work?

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