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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What deep question does Laelius struggle with?
(a) What his deficiency is.
(b) Whether the need for friendship is a deficiency.
(c) What friendship really is.
(d) Who his best friend is.

2. According to "Laelius: On Friendship," what makes friendship possible?
(a) Desire.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Pain of being attached.
(d) Connection.

3. Where must Scipio's soul return, according to his dream?
(a) Earth.
(b) His country.
(c) His planet.
(d) The afterlife.

4. Who sends Scipio into tears just by the sight of him, in "The Dream of Scipio"?
(a) Scipio's mother.
(b) Scipio's family.
(c) Scipio's father.
(d) Scipio's friend.

5. What does "The Dream of Scipio" suggest about virtuous people?
(a) They are given eternal love.
(b) Only they can see their loved ones in heaven.
(c) Only they are given eteral life.
(d) Only they are exempt from hell.

6. What exists in the smallest sphere discussed in "The Dream of Scipio"?
(a) Cicero.
(b) God.
(c) Earth.
(d) The planets.

7. According to Laelius, what two things should be avoided in friendship?
(a) Hypocrisy and pretense.
(b) Hypocrisy and insult.
(c) Condemnation and pretense.
(d) Insult and pretense.

8. Who does Laelius argue needs friends the most?
(a) Those that are lonely.
(b) Those that are shy.
(c) Those that are weak.
(d) Those that are dependant.

9. What does the dream of "The Dream of Scipio" illustrate?
(a) Mortality.
(b) Authentic relationships.
(c) Selective immortality.
(d) Magic.

10. What does Crassus argue great orators cannot restrict themselves to?
(a) The Pantheon.
(b) Oratory.
(c) Courts.
(d) The Forum.

11. In "The Dream of Scipio," where does God exist in the universe?
(a) The second sphere.
(b) The fourth sphere.
(c) The largest sphere.
(d) The smallest sphere.

12. What does Laelius believe makes goods truly good?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Jealousy of others.
(c) Sharing.
(d) Recognition.

13. Who reproaches Cicero after he leaves the country, in "Laelius: On Friendship"?
(a) Dante.
(b) Laelius.
(c) Plutarch.
(d) Atticus.

14. What do Rufus and Crassus need to become good orators?
(a) To study and research.
(b) To practice.
(c) Enthusiasm and training.
(d) To study under each of them.

15. When was the excerpt of "The Dream of Scipio" rediscovered?
(a) Prior to Cicero's "On the Good Life."
(b) The medieval period.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) Post revolutionary war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the younger men ask Crassus to tell them in "On the Orator"?

2. Who reveals the structure of the universe to Scipio?

3. When did Laelius's friend die in relation to when Cicero wrote "Laelius: On Friendship"?

4. What question does Cicero ask his brother, concerning what great oratory requires?

5. What two types of men cannot be friends, according to Laelius?

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