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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 Catiline plan to do eventually in Rome?

2. Sallust claims his writing is not totally accurate because of this.

3. What happens to the men who have been arrested by the Senate when they are taken from the Senate?

4. What does the Senate do about Catiline after Catulus reads a letter from him?

5. How does Catiline prepare his soldiers for battle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Cicero do with some of the conspirators and what is their ultimate fate? Who argues for their fate?

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

4. What did Cicero do when he uncovered Catiline's plans and how did this stymie Cataline's plans?

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

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

7. In what manner did Sylla take over the government and what did he do with the army?

8. What does Catiline say about Volturcius's statements to the Senate, who does he name as a conspirator and how is that accusation handled by the Senate?

9. What does Quinton Metellus do about Catiline's army and what kind of situation does that make for Catiline?

10. What and where is Manilos doing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sallust claims Catiline looked mostly to capture the minds and support of youngsters, buying them gifts and sending them mistresses.

1. Why do you think Catiline tried to get the young people on his side? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. In Germany when Hitler began his Nazi campaign it was the young people he targeted. Discuss how this relates to Catiline.

3. Do you think all young people could be brought with gifts? What kind of young person do you think could not be bribed? Discuss what you think of the character of someone who can be bribed to follow someone?

Essay Topic 2

Sallust binds the theme of acting quickly with a sound political structure. In a dictatorship such of that of Sylla's and the government Catiline is trying to enforce, acting quickly does not work. Democratic leadership, Sallust says, is more apt to have success with quick decisions.

1. Explain why Sallust does not consider a dictatorship a sound political structure. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Explain the difference and similarities between a dictatorship and a democracy government.

3. What do you think is meant by Sallust binding the theme of acting quickly with a sound political structure.

Essay Topic 3

In many ways, Sallust's recording of events reads more like a novel than an historical document. The book moves along quickly, progressing in short chapters; within the chapters, the writing is not the formal and detailed style a reader would expect from a modern history book.

1. Discuss why you do or do not agree with the above statement using examples from the text to illustrate your opinion.

2. What do you think are the reasons an historian might want to write a book of history that would be interesting for an average reader rather than just historians? What would be the benefit to more people reading a book versus a select few?

3. What do you see are the differences between Sallust's historical accounts of the Catiline Revolt and the Jugurthine War and one that might be written to teach high school students in the 21st. century? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

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