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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. Who does Cicero arrange to wait under the Milvian Bridge?

2. Why did Catiline kill his son?

3. What is Cicero having a difficult time doing related to Manilos?

4. What surprises Petreius about Catiline's attack?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Sallust compare Catlin and Cicero?

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

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

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

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

Cato implies that the government is full of corrupt and power-hungry individuals who promote their own wealth over the health of the state.

1. What have you read in this book that would lead you to agree with Cato? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. There are many who would say almost all governments are full of corruption. Do you agree or disagree with this? Why or why not?

3. There are some people who compare present day America with the last years of Rome. Compare the two nations with what you see are the similarities and the differences.

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 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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