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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Tiro supposed to meet Rosica on the next day?
(a) At Cicero's house.
(b) Near Caecilia's house.
(c) By the river.
(d) At the Forum.

2. What happens to Gordianus and Tiro as they are leaving Chrysogonus's house?
(a) They fall down a flight of stairs.
(b) They get lost and are discovered by Magnus and Glaucia.
(c) The have sex wtih the kitchen maid.
(d) They get lost and accidentally stumble into the party.

3. Who does the guard sent by Cicero turn out to be?
(a) A spy.
(b) A man sent by Roscius to protect Gordianus.
(c) Cicero's guard, as he said.
(d) Someone sent to kill Gordianus.

4. How does Roscius react to the information about Elena and her baby?
(a) He is horrified that his father would father a child with a prostitute.
(b) He claims he knew nothing about it.
(c) He is saddened, as he had hoped to save her.
(d) He has no concern over that at all.

5. What is the most important piece of information that Felix and Chrestus tell Gordianus?
(a) Where Roscius was the night his father was killed.
(b) What happened to Elena and her baby.
(c) Why Chrysogonus wanted the land.
(d) Who really killed Rosicus (pater).

6. Rufus does not want to attend a party where Sulla will be present because __________________.
(a) He hates Sulla for marrying his sister.
(b) He is afraid Sulla will kill him because he works with Cicero.
(c) He thinks Sulla has ruined Rome.
(d) Sulla is interested in Rufus sexually.

7. In Chapter 23, what does Gordianus learn about Roscia?
(a) That her father has been sexually molesting her.
(b) That she knows her father killed her grandfather.
(c) That she is pregnant.
(d) That she is in love with him.

8. In Chapter 25, the two slaves tell how Elena died. What was the manner of her death?
(a) She died giving birth to her baby.
(b) She was weak and ill after the birth of her baby, and died in a cart on the way to Rome.
(c) The Roscii cousins killed her immediately.
(d) She died trying to prevent the Roscii from killing her baby.

9. Who is the old blind man at the Bleating Lamb?
(a) Magnus's father.
(b) A fake--he's not really blind.
(c) A spy.
(d) The tavern keeper's father.

10. Rufus admits to Gordianus that _________________.
(a) He wants to leave the country.
(b) He wants to be an advocate like Cicero.
(c) He is in love with Roscia.
(d) He is infatuated with Cicero.

11. How does Gordianus react when Titus mentions the name Chrysogonus?
(a) He slaps his hand on his leg and mutters, "I knew it."
(b) He does not react at all, because he is not sure he can trust Titus.
(c) He faints and hits his head against the stone wall.
(d) He recognizes it as the "partner" Carus told him bought the slaves Felix and Chrestus.

12. Who is Metrobius?
(a) A friend to Rufus.
(b) Another slave in the room with Felix and Chrestus.
(c) A nobleman in Rome.
(d) A famous female impersonator entertaining Sulla.

13. Why does Roscius not want to go to trial?
(a) He is worried he will be killed no matter what.
(b) He is afraid for what will become of his wife and daughters.
(c) He is adamant that he is being framed.
(d) He wishes he could repair the Roscii name.

14. To whom was Roscia giving information about Cicero's case?
(a) A man working for the prosecution of her father.
(b) A hired assassin.
(c) Rufus.
(d) A slave in Sulla's house.

15. How does Gordianus plan to get into Chrysogonus's house to question Felix and Chrestus?
(a) He will go to Sulla and tell him the truth.
(b) He will create a diversion to get him out of his house.
(c) He will climb onto the roof and find a way in.
(d) Rufus will let him in through a back way during a party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Elena's baby, according to Felix and Chrestus?

2. After Gordianus and Bethesda return to their house, what does he do?

3. Gordianus passes two men on the road, and he believes they are the men who broke into his house in Rome. How does he know this?

4. Who is Mallius Glaucia?

5. Gordianus asks a boy for directions to the home of Sextus Roscius, and he finds out ______________.

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