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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 Catiline promise the people in question #55 if they help him?
(a) More land for their nation.
(b) Their country being free of debt.
(c) Total freedom from Rome.
(d) Gold and riches.

2. What troops does the Senate send out?
(a) The Senate guard.
(b) Cicero and his troops.
(c) Octavio and his troops.
(d) Antonio and his troops.

3. Why did the government become unsupportable?
(a) Society morals disintegrated.
(b) The civilization became too big.
(c) Belief in God died.
(d) The government became too big.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sallust say is one of the main differences between Catiline and Cicero?

2. What does Cicero do with the conspirators he has in custody?

3. What type of people in general, did Sallust say the army had?

4. Why is there a public voting for another consul?

5. Why did Sallust become a writer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What assassinations does Catiline plot and what does he plan to do with Piso?

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

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

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

7. What did Catiline do before he was married?

8. What does Catline do when he realizes he is being defeated?

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

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

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