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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. What does Jugurtha do after Annuis' officers leave their posts?
(a) Burn down Suthul.
(b) Surrender himself.
(c) Surround Annuis.
(d) Leaves for his capiol.

2. What kind of welcome does the public give Metellus when he returns to Rome?
(a) A hero's welcome.
(b) There are angry mobs and riots upon his return.
(c) He is just considered as someone who has done his job.
(d) They are indifferent to his return.

3. What does the Senate tell Adherbal to do after their representative in question #127 returns?
(a) To come to Rome.
(b) To hand over all the territory to Jugurtha.
(c) To resign Cirta and talk to Jugurtha.
(d) They don't tell him anything.

4. How does Jugurtha get a better deal from the Senate?
(a) Blackmails some powerful members.
(b) Increases his bribes.
(c) Marries the emperor's daughter.
(d) Gives a more passionate speech.

5. What does the Senate give Metellus after he is elected?
(a) Head of the civil service.
(b) Head of a powerful Senate committee.
(c) Numidia.
(d) The province of Gaul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metellus bribe Bohumilcar to do?

2. What does Jugurtha ask of King Bocchus?

3. Why does Jugurtha send his best men to Zama?

4. What does Jugurtha do after the Roman representatives leave?

5. What does Metellus do about Vacca?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the senate decide to do about Numidia?

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

3. How, when and why did a rift develop between Jugurtha and his brothers?

4. How does Jugurtha provoke Adherbal into resuming hostilities?

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

6. Who is Marcus Scaurus and what does the Senate have him do? How does Jugurtha respond to Scaurus?

7. What does Sallust say about man's intellectual ability and fate?

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

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

10. How does Jugurtha take care of Annuis?

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