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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Conspiracy of Catiline XXV-XXXVI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jugurtha easily bribe members of government?
(a) The moral decline in Roman society.
(b) The lack of living wages for government workers.
(c) The overall poor economy.
(d) His father was so well known.

2. What does the Senate do about Catiline after Catulus reads a letter from him?
(a) Call him in for elections.
(b) Arrest his wife and children.
(c) Arrest him and hang him.
(d) Declare him an enemy of the state.

3. Why did Sallust become a writer?
(a) He was too old to do anything else.
(b) He wanted to stir up the people.
(c) He did not want to waste his life.
(d) He wanted to make Catiline famous.

4. What does Catiline begins to attract to his side?
(a) Libertines.
(b) Women.
(c) The Spanish.
(d) Older people.

5. Why is there a public voting for another consul?
(a) Curius tells his girlfriend about the meeting.
(b) The higher consuls were upset about the war.
(c) Some of the people were horrified about drinking human blood.
(d) Cicero found out about the meeting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catiline do to attract people to his cause?

2. What does Sallust think a reader of history believes?

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

4. What does he tell his followers to carry at all times?

5. When did greed take over society, according to Sallust?

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