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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cicero ask the Allobroges to do?

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

3. What surprises Petreius about Catiline's attack?

4. Into what type of family was Catiline born?

5. Where does Petreius first attack Catiline?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. Where is Catiline going with his army and what does Antonio do about it?

9. How does Sallust compare Catlin and Cicero?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sallust includes a speech he makes to the people in which he says that the government is corrupt but the people should not get violent.

1. Explain how Sallust's statement about violence contradicts his positive portrayal of Jugurtha. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. The United States of America is just one of many countries that have been started by violent revolution. How does the existence of America contradict the above statement that Sallust has about corruption in government and violence?

3. Explain, in detail, how Jugurtha might have been able to peaceably obtain his goals.

Essay Topic 2

Sallust concentrates on the action, often presenting everything in very black and white. For example, the good guys such as Cicero are inherently good, while Catiline, of course, is completely bad. It is interesting that when Antonio pardons himself from fighting, Sallust passes no judgment on him.

1. Discuss the problems that can be caused in a situation when good or bad are the only two judgments that can be made about that situation. Use examples from the text and your own life to illustrate your ideas.

2. Rigidity in thinking has been the cause of much disagreements and misunderstanding in the world. When two people or two cultures or two countries are unable to see the viewpoint of another, communication cannot take place. Sallust seeing some persons as all good or all bad is an example of rigid thinking. Discuss a problem in the present time which is caused or aggravated by rigid thinking.

3. Debate the following statement: All people have both good and bad within and no one is all bad or all good. Use examples of well known individuals in history and individuals in this book, to illustrate both sides of the issue.

Essay Topic 3

Sallust said that wise leaders who could recognize people as individuals and bring them together through a shared love of their nation, built the original Roman society.

1. Why do you think Sallust thought the leaders were wise in the early days of the empire? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Discuss why love of a nation might bind a people together better than greed or love of power.

3. Discuss what the leaders of America might be able to learn from the early leadership of Rome and how they might be able to implement similar leadership.

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