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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the senate apologize to Cicero after hearing the evidence against Catiline?
(a) For filing charges against the wrong person.
(b) For not listening to him earlier.
(c) For allowing Catiline to escape.
(d) For not understanding the evidence.

2. What did many people wonder about Cicero's Pro Marcello speech?
(a) Why it was not longer.
(b) Why it was not shorter.
(c) Why Cicero waited so long to give it.
(d) Why Cicero gave it.

3. How soon after Catiline left the senate chamber did Cicero give In Catilinam II?
(a) The next day.
(b) Two days later.
(c) Three days later.
(d) The next week.

4. How did Caesar's position about the conspirators seem to benefit him at the time?
(a) Only politically.
(b) Only publicly.
(c) Both politically and publicly.
(d) Neither politically nor publicly.

5. What position did Silanus have?
(a) Praetor.
(b) Aedile.
(c) Consul-elect.
(d) Tribune.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the conspirators when the senate debated their sentence in Chapter 7?

2. How many ex-consuls agreed with Silanus about giving the death penalty to the conspirators?

3. Which of the following was part of the decree thanking Cicero for proving Catiline's guilt to the senate?

4. When did Cicero tell the people at the forum about Catiline's conspiracy?

5. Which one of the following was not included in the description that Cicero gave for the men that remained loyal to Catiline because of his past?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Silanus' position during the senate's debate, and who agreed with him?

2. Which of Caesar's accomplishments did Cicero reference in Pro Marcello?

3. What did Catiline do as he was leaving the senate in Chapter 5, and what was Cicero's response?

4. How did Cicero describe his exile in Chapter 8?

5. What happened to the six co-conspirators that Cicero discovered in Chapter 6?

6. How did Cicero refute the claim that executing the co-conspirators was illegal?

7. How long had Cicero been exiled for before he gave Pro Marcello? What happened to Rome while he was away?

8. What removed any doubt of Catiline's guilt, and how did Cicero collect evidence against him?

9. What was the theory about Caesar's position at the senate debate and his political ambitions?

10. Why did Caesar disagree with Silanus in Chapter 7? What was his alternate suggestion?

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