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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 Metellus realize about Zama?
(a) He cannot defeat Jugurtha without capturing Zama.
(b) He must take the city.
(c) He will be unable to capture that city.
(d) Jugurtha has a lot of money stashed there.

2. What does the Senate tell Adherbal to do after their representative in question #127 returns?
(a) To come to Rome.
(b) To resign Cirta and talk to Jugurtha.
(c) To hand over all the territory to Jugurtha.
(d) They don't tell him anything.

3. What does Micipas tell his two biological sons when he is on his deathbed?
(a) To follow Rome's laws.
(b) To learn from Jugurtha.
(c) To kill Jugurtha.
(d) To keep any power from Jugurtha.

4. What does the Senate give Metellus after he is elected?
(a) Head of the civil service.
(b) Head of a powerful Senate committee.
(c) Numidia.
(d) The province of Gaul.

5. What does Sallust say is the problem with how the Roman army lives?
(a) It is too austere.
(b) It is too luxurious for fighting men.
(c) They are too poor.
(d) They live well, but not too well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adherbal do before he battles with Jugurtha?

2. What does Metellus bribe Bohumilcar to do?

3. What does Jugurtha do once the Senate has made its decision on Numidia?

4. What does the Senate do after the affair with Annuis?

5. What does the Senate do in response to Jugurtha's behavior towards Adherbal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jugurtha take care of Annuis?

2. What does Jugurtha do after he flees Thala?

3. What does Adherbal do when he runs to Rome and how does that work out for him?

4. How does the Roman public react to Marius and Metellus's falling out?

5. What does Sallust say about public office and what most men don't want and how they gain promotions?

6. How does Jugurtha provoke Adherbal into resuming hostilities?

7. What does Jugurtha do after the Roman representatives leave Numidia?

8. What does Jugurtha hear about Metellus, what is his response to that and how does Metellus respond to Jugurtha?

9. What does Marius do when he is in Numidia?

10. How does the war between Jugurtha and Adhrbal start?

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