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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 decide to do about what he knows?

2. What do the conspirators do when they hear Catiline plans to burn the city?

3. What does Sallust say is the result of people wanting their own merits celebrated rather then to record others' merits?

4. Who do Catiline's followers plan to lure to the city gate?

5. Why did Catiline kill his son?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What and where is Manilos doing?

6. What did Catiline do before he was married?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Jugurthine War is presented by Sallust as an historical account of two events in Roman history yet it seems to contain as much subjective opinion as historical facts.

1. Discuss why Sallust's book might be mere propaganda for the Roman government. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Debate the following statement: History should contain only facts not opinions or propaganda.

3. How much propaganda do you think is taught in history classes in the present time? Use examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

It seems strange that Sallust represents Jugurtha as an honorable man and then suggests that his motives behind his violence were nothing more than a lust for power, control and war.

1. Discuss, with examples from the text, the above statement.

2. Jugurtha committed many atrocities in his quest for power. Discuss how you believe his behavior would be settled in an international court for war crimes. How are his actions similar to some of the war crimes which have been tried in the past twenty years?

3. Jugurtha killed not only many people, but his own adopted brothers and even tortured Adherbal. Do you think fratricide is morally more reprehensible than murder of a person who is unknown to the criminal? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Sallust starts by talking about the strengths of the mind and the body. He puts the virtues of the mind above that of the body, but he understands that war needs both the mind for planning and the body for attacking.

1. Discuss the strengths of the mind versus the strengths of the body. Include in your discussion how one might complement the other and how one might interfere with the other.

2. Discuss the different uses of the body and the mind for war. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Using the text as a resource, why do you think Sallust puts the virtue of the mind above that of the body? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

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