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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Catiline prepare his soldiers for battle?
(a) With a speech.
(b) By passing out food and water.
(c) By placing them in rows with shields.
(d) With a meeting about tactics.

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

3. Who names Marcus Crassus as a conspirator?
(a) Cato.
(b) Cicero.
(c) Tarquinious.
(d) Catiline.

4. How did Catiline's constituency end up the way it did?
(a) They were considered uncouth.
(b) There was a drought in his district.
(c) They had a monopoly on a gold mine.
(d) Catiline abused his power.

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

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

7. Why did Sallust become a writer?
(a) He did not want to waste his life.
(b) He wanted to stir up the people.
(c) He wanted to make Catiline famous.
(d) He was too old to do anything else.

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

9. Who do Catiline's followers plan to lure to the city gate?
(a) Cato.
(b) Tarquinious.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Crassus.

10. What two groups came together to form Rome?
(a) The Britons and the Celts.
(b) The Trojans and Aborigines.
(c) The Italians and the Germanic Tribes.
(d) The Carthaginians and the Druids.

11. How does the Senate decide Crassus' guilt?
(a) With a trial.
(b) With a vote.
(c) By following his movements for a week.
(d) By torture.

12. What does Catiline do when he realizes he is overpowered?
(a) He slips away to France.
(b) He kills himself.
(c) He charges to the front.
(d) He surrenders his army.

13. What does Catiline think is the best way to advance one's ambitions?
(a) By assimilation.
(b) Through war.
(c) By elections.
(d) By conspiracy.

14. What does Catiline promise the Senate?
(a) To burn it down.
(b) To become head of it.
(c) To support it.
(d) To sow seeds of discontent.

15. To whom does Catiline go for allies?
(a) France.
(b) Africa.
(c) The Gauls.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cicero having a difficult time doing related to Manilos?

2. What do Catiline's followers plan to do with the man in question #59?

3. What does Catiline plan to do with Lucius Cotta and Lucius Torquatus?

4. What does Sallust think a reader of history believes?

5. What does he tell his followers to carry at all times?

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