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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antonio do before the battle with Catiline?
(a) Meet with his commanders.
(b) Take a nap.
(c) Hand command over to Petreius.
(d) Give a speech to the soldiers.

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

3. What do the conspirators do when they hear Catiline plans to burn the city?
(a) Kill Catiline.
(b) Switch their support to Cicero.
(c) Leaves the city immediately.
(d) Tell the Senate what he is doing.

4. Sallust claims his writing is not totally accurate because of this.
(a) Censors.
(b) Too many facts have been covered up.
(c) Too much time has passed.
(d) Cicero wanted a biased history.

5. What type of debate does the Senate have over the men Cicero arrests?
(a) Whether they are guilty.
(b) Whether they should be exiled.
(c) Whether to execute them.
(d) How much they know.

6. What does Celer do about Catiline?
(a) He has nothing to do with Catiline's fight.
(b) He joins Catiline.
(c) He assassinates Catiline.
(d) He slips behind Catiline to block his retreat.

7. What does the rumors of an army coming to Rome do in the city?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Cause hoarding and riots.
(c) Make the citizens arm themselves.
(d) Spread panic.

8. How do the people in question #55 respond to Catiline?
(a) They say no then change their mind.
(b) At first they agree then change their mind.
(c) They say no.
(d) They say yes.

9. When does Antonio declare his injury?
(a) After the battle.
(b) Before the battle.
(c) During the battle.
(d) Never.

10. What does Catiline promise the people in question #55 if they help him?
(a) Gold and riches.
(b) Their country being free of debt.
(c) Total freedom from Rome.
(d) More land for their nation.

11. With whom does Quintus Curius have a relationship?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Shaphia.
(c) Sieria.
(d) Fulvia.

12. How does Sallust view the body?
(a) As a beautiful gift from God.
(b) As the best part of a nation.
(c) As a weak part of humans.
(d) As a brutal, destructive force.

13. What does Cicero do with the conspirators he has in custody?
(a) Takes them to Antonio.
(b) Takes them to the Roman Court.
(c) Has them killed.
(d) Takes them to the Senate.

14. What does Catiline begins to attract to his side?
(a) Women.
(b) Libertines.
(c) Older people.
(d) The Spanish.

15. Why was the early Roman society morally sound?
(a) It was healthier.
(b) An oppressive government.
(c) A repressive religion.
(d) Natural inclination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catiline do after he leaves the Senate?

2. How does Petreius motivate soldiers?

3. With what does Sallust say his ancestors built great empires?

4. To whom does Catiline go for allies?

5. What does Catiline do when he realizes he is overpowered?

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