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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 Sallust say is the result of people wanting their own merits celebrated rather then to record others' merits?
(a) Romans do not have great literature.
(b) People began fighting for recognition.
(c) The society became weaker.
(d) Celebrities were more imporatant than leaders.

2. What is Cicero having a difficult time doing related to Manilos?
(a) Getting good intelligence.
(b) Getting his permission to marry his sister.
(c) Convincing him to be on Cicero's side.
(d) Finding him.

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

4. Where does Catiline tell the Senate he is going because of the accusations against him?
(a) Istanbul.
(b) Africa.
(c) Spain.
(d) France.

5. What does Catiline begins to attract to his side?
(a) Libertines.
(b) Older people.
(c) Women.
(d) The Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cicero ask the Allobroges to do?

2. How do the people in question #55 respond to Catiline?

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

4. Why did Sallust become a writer?

5. What is Catiline doing that is akin to revolution, according to Sallust?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Sallust compare Catlin and Cicero?

9. Who does Catiline attempt to recruit for allies and how do they respond?

10. What is Catiline's only choice for his army? Who takes over Antonio's army and why? What does he do with the army before they fight?

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