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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 do after he leaves the Senate?

3. What does Sallust say allowed Catiline to increase his power?

4. What happens to Cneuis Piso?

5. What punishment does Cato argue for the conspirators?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the Senate hear about Manilus and how does it affect Rome?

4. How does Sallust's disgust for greed relate to what Catiline said he wanted to do?

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

10. What does Cathegus say he will do about Cicero?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In many ways, Sallust's recording of events reads more like a novel than an historical document.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.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

From Sallust's perspective, the Jugurthine war was more akin to a civil war between the nobility and the people, and Jugurtha was an excuse for the takeover.

1. Why do you think Sallust calls the Jugurthine War a civil war? Do you agree with this assertion? Why or why not? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. In some ways, some of the wars in which the United States has participated were civil wars, at least from Sallust's perspective. Do you think it is moral or immoral for America to interfere in a civil war in another country? Why or why not?

3. If one believes Sallust's description of civil war, then the American Revolution would have to be considered a civil war. Debate the two sides to this statement.

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