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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jugurtha do against Metellus's army?
(a) Attacks the entire army.
(b) Tries to subvert it from within.
(c) Runs from it.
(d) Small ambushes.

2. What does Jugurtha do when Metellus marches past his ambush?
(a) Attacks him.
(b) Nothing, he waits to see what Metellus is going to do.
(c) Withdraws, he is too outnumbered.
(d) Calls a truce to parley.

3. What does Metellus bribe Bohumilcar to do?
(a) Tell the Senate Jugurtha is dead.
(b) Kill Jugurtha.
(c) Bring him Jugurtha.
(d) Tell the Senate Metellus has won.

4. To where does Adherbal escape with his soldiers?
(a) France.
(b) Numidia.
(c) Rome.
(d) Cirta.

5. How does Metellus attempt to provoke Jugurtha?
(a) By arresting his son.
(b) By killing his wife.
(c) By turning the Numidians against him.
(d) By looting his richest towns.

6. What does Jugurtha do after the Roman representatives leave?
(a) Send more money for bribes to Rome.
(b) Increase his attack on Adherbal.
(c) Return home.
(d) Offers a peace treaty to Adherbal.

7. Why did the society of the Libyans and the Getulians change?
(a) They started fighting with each other.
(b) They united under one leader.
(c) The Persians move into the area.
(d) Rome took it over.

8. When does Marius decide to attack Jugurtha?
(a) After resting for a week.
(b) When his troops are asleep.
(c) After Jugurtha returns to Zama.
(d) When Jugurtha makes a run for Gaul.

9. Why does Adherbal deliver a speech to the Senate?
(a) To raise money.
(b) To ask for Jugurtha's arrest.
(c) To ask for help to defeat Jugurtha.
(d) To warn them about Micipas.

10. To what office do the Roman people elect Quintin Metellus?
(a) Senate.
(b) Consul.
(c) Governor.
(d) Administrator.

11. How does Sallust present the Roman army in the beginning?
(a) As brutal and incompetent.
(b) As a precise professional force.
(c) As well meaning but ineffectual.
(d) As an undisciplined army of brutes.

12. What does the Senate give Metellus after he is elected?
(a) Head of a powerful Senate committee.
(b) Numidia.
(c) The province of Gaul.
(d) Head of the civil service.

13. What does Metellus offer Bohumilcar as a bribe?
(a) A home in Rome.
(b) A lifetime position in the government.
(c) A pardon for murdering Massiva.
(d) Five gold pieces.

14. Where does Metellus leave his prisoners and his baggage?
(a) Zama.
(b) Thala.
(c) Vacca.
(d) Cirta.

15. What does Metellus do with his soldiers when he retreats?
(a) Has them scrounge the countryside.
(b) Allows them to rest.
(c) Sends them back to Rome.
(d) Begins to drill them even harder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucius Annius do about Jugurtha?

2. Why does Jugurtha bribe Romans?

3. How are people reaching powerful positions?

4. What does Jugurtha do once the Senate has made its decision on Numidia?

5. To where does Adherval flee?

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