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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Jugurthine War XXV-XXXVI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Catiline plan to do about Cicero?
(a) Enlist him in his cause.
(b) Assassinate him.
(c) Exile him.
(d) Make him an advisor.

2. When did greed take over society, according to Sallust?
(a) When the empire became too big.
(b) When Catiline took over.
(c) When the empire was too old.
(d) When the prince's died in battle.

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

4. How do the people in the Senate feel towards Catiline when he enters the Senate?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Anger.
(d) Confusion.

5. What does Micipas do after receiving a letter from Scipio about Jugurtha's actions during the war?
(a) Gives him a medal of honor.
(b) Adopt him as a son.
(c) Have him killed.
(d) Exile him to Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sallust say Piso treated harshly?

2. Why did Sallust become a writer?

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

4. What does Catiline promise the people in question #55 if they help him?

5. What does Sallust say people should not do if the government is corrupt?

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