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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Lucius Sylla to with the army?
(a) Downsized it.
(b) Made it too big.
(c) Disciplined it radically.
(d) Over indulged the soldiers.

4. How does Sallust feel about the answer to question #35?
(a) Anger.
(b) Depression.
(c) Begrudging respect.
(d) Sadness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Catiline's constituency end up the way it did?

2. What does Cato say about the fate of the traitors?

3. Where does Petreius attack Catiline after his initial attack?

4. What does Sallust say allowed Catiline to increase his power?

5. To whom does Catiline go for allies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sallust say happened because the society was fragile that led to the end of the society?

2. Who reads a letter from Catiline to the Senate, what does the letter say and what is the Senate's reaction to it?

3. What happens when Cicero takes the conspirators to the Senate?

4. How does Sallust compare Catlin and Cicero?

5. What does Cicero ask of the Gauls and why?

6. What does Catiline deliver to his men, what do they ask him and what is his response?

7. What does Cicero do with some of the conspirators and what is their ultimate fate? Who argues for their fate?

8. What does Sallust speculate about Piso's murder?

9. What does the Senate hear about Manilus and how does it affect Rome?

10. What does Cicero know of Manilos and what does he do about it? What is he told to do about it?

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