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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 think a reader of history believes?
(a) It is completely accurate.
(b) History is generally boring.
(c) It is always censored.
(d) It is written with a bias.

2. What type of debate does the Senate have over the men Cicero arrests?
(a) How much they know.
(b) Whether they are guilty.
(c) Whether to execute them.
(d) Whether they should be exiled.

3. How does Petreius motivate soldiers?
(a) Offering a take in the bounty on Catiline.
(b) Reminding them of past heroics.
(c) Offering combat wages.
(d) Threatening their families.

4. What does Cicero ask the Allobroges to do?
(a) Go join Antonio.
(b) Join his army.
(c) Play along with Catiline.
(d) Arrange a meeting between him and the conspirators.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catiline say he will do if he is head of the government?

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

3. What does Sallust say the prince's way of life promoted?

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

5. When does Antonio declare his injury?

Short Essay Questions

1. What and where is Manilos doing?

2. What did Catiline do before he was married?

3. What do Catiline's followers want to do with Cicero?

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

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

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

7. What surprises Petreius about Catiline and what is his response?

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

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

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

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