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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 he tell his followers to carry at all times?
(a) Carrier pigeons.
(b) Food and water.
(c) Letters from him.
(d) Weapons.

2. What does Catiline plan to do with Lucius Cotta and Lucius Torquatus?
(a) Marry them to his sisters.
(b) Make them ambassadors.
(c) Assassinate them.
(d) Give them high positions in their government.

3. Where does Cicero work?
(a) The Senate building.
(b) The solicitation Consul's house.
(c) In the merchants' section of Rome.
(d) At the Roman Court.

4. Why does an empire need to have an emphasis on the mind?
(a) The government would be constantly changing without it.
(b) The government has to be smarter than the slaves.
(c) The government has to educate the people.
(d) There is so much paperwork.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Catiline think is the best way to advance one's ambitions?

3. Where does Catiline tell the Senate he is going because of the accusations against him?

4. Who is told about Catiline's plans for Cicero?

5. What type of debate does the Senate have over the men Cicero arrests?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what manner did Sylla take over the government and what did he do with the army?

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

4. What does Cathegus say he will do about Cicero?

5. What does Quinton Metellus do about Catiline's army and what kind of situation does that make for Catiline?

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

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

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

9. Why was there a public voting for another consul?

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

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