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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 Sallust say about men's lives and fate in Chapter I-XII?

2. What does Jugurtha do against Metellus's army?

3. What does Jugurtha tell Bomilcar to do?

4. What does Sallust say is the problem with how the Roman army lives?

5. What does the Senate do in response to Jugurtha's behavior towards Adherbal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jugurtha do after he flees Thala?

2. How does Rome feel about Metellus's encounters with Jugurtha and what is Metellus's response to this?

3. What does Sallust say is the reason he is writing The Jugurthine War book?

4. What does the Senate tell Jugurtha he must do about Adherbal and what is Jugurtha's response?

5. What does Adherbal do when he runs to Rome and how does that work out for him?

6. How does Jugurtha take care of Annuis?

7. What does the Senate have Metellus do after he is elected and how does Sallust describe Metellus?

8. How does Metellus handle Jugurtha's ambush and what does he do after the first encounter with Jugurtha?

9. What type of government does Sallust say could solve the problems but what happens when that is attempted?

10. Describe the circumstances surrounding Hiempsal's death?

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

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 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.

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