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

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

3. What does Sallust say is the reason Catiline eventually led the battle from the front line?
(a) He was able to keep track of the battle better.
(b) He remembered his noble origins.
(c) He was a better fighter then most of his men.
(d) It stopped his men from running away.

4. What is Curius' final role in the situation with Catiline?
(a) General for Cicero.
(b) Government informer.
(c) He's not involved.
(d) Traitor.

5. What does Petreius do after Catiline starts to attack?
(a) He does nothing but contine as he was.
(b) Calls for Catiline's surrender.
(c) Changes his strategy.
(d) Sends in an assassin for Catiline.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Cicero decide to do about what he knows?

3. What happened with Catiline's constituency?

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

5. What does the Senate do about Catiline after Catulus reads a letter from him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Catiline plan to assassinate and how does Fulvia find out about it?

3. Where is Catiline going with his army and what does Antonio do about it?

4. How does Sallust compare Catlin and Cicero?

5. Who does Catiline attract people to his cause and what kind of people does he attract?

6. Why did the Romans have to defend their borders and what did they do after they were successful in that?

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

8. What did Cicero do when he uncovered Catiline's plans and how did this stymie Cataline's plans?

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

10. How does Sallust's disgust for greed relate to what Catiline said he wanted to do?

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