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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Catiline do after he leaves the Senate?
(a) Go to Manilus.
(b) Begin to raise an army in Rome.
(c) Go to Spain.
(d) Go see his wife.

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

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

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

5. Why did the government become unsupportable?
(a) The government became too big.
(b) Belief in God died.
(c) The civilization became too big.
(d) Society morals disintegrated.

6. What does Catiline plan to do eventually in Rome?
(a) Conquer it.
(b) Burn it.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Be elected emperor.

7. What is Cicero having a difficult time doing related to Manilos?
(a) Finding him.
(b) Convincing him to be on Cicero's side.
(c) Getting his permission to marry his sister.
(d) Getting good intelligence.

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

9. What do Catiline's followers plan to do with the man in question #59?
(a) Convert him to their cause.
(b) Exile him.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Kidnap him.

10. Who does Cicero arrange to wait under the Milvian Bridge?
(a) Catiline's wife.
(b) Two men.
(c) Crassus.
(d) Three Senators.

11. What type of people in general, did Sallust say the army had?
(a) Power hungry people.
(b) People who wanted to serve.
(c) Alturistic people.
(d) Patriotic people.

12. Who is told about Catiline's plans for Cicero?
(a) Sallust.
(b) Galen.
(c) Fulvia.
(d) Octavio.

13. Where is Lucuis Tarquinious arrested?
(a) When he is at the public baths.
(b) When he comes out of his house that morning.
(c) On his way to Catiline.
(d) At the city gates.

14. According to Sallust, why did men join the army in the early days of Rome?
(a) To earn renown as a hero.
(b) To support their country.
(c) To impress the women.
(d) To earn better money.

15. Why is there a public voting for another consul?
(a) Cicero found out about the meeting.
(b) The higher consuls were upset about the war.
(c) Curius tells his girlfriend about the meeting.
(d) Some of the people were horrified about drinking human blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what type of family was Catiline born?

2. Where does Cicero work?

3. What does Catiline plan to do with Cneuis Piso?

4. What does Sallust say the prince's way of life promoted?

5. Where does Catiline send his best men?

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