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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. How did Verres make it appear as though he was saving the people in his region from slave revolts?
(a) Paying witnesses to fabricate stories.
(b) Unreported revolts.
(c) Staging fake revolts.
(d) Falsely reporting revolts that never took place.

2. Which one of the following was assumed to be elected to the consulship and help Verres?
(a) Sisenna.
(b) Hortensius.
(c) Nasica.
(d) Metellus.

3. Besides being a criminal, what was it about Verres that Cicero thought had to be put down?
(a) His audacity.
(b) His hypocrisy.
(c) His arrogance.
(d) His rudeness.

4. Why had Catiline not already retreated into exile when Cicero gave his speech?
(a) He could not think of where to retreat..
(b) He planned to, but he changed his mind.
(c) He did not think Cicero could convict him.
(d) He had bribed all of Cicero's witnesses.

5. Based on what Cicero said in his speech, how did many people feel about the possibility that Verres could use bribery to cause an acquittal?
(a) They were not worried.
(b) They were worried.
(c) They were overestimating it.
(d) They were underestimating it.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Cicero say that Catiline should have been killed by the Roman consul?

2. What year were the speeches of In Verrem given?

3. What did Verres apparently do when the people protested his treatment of the pirate captain?

4. According to Cicero's opening of his first speech against Verres, who despised the jurors?

5. Following his summaries of smaller points, what did Cicero say was enough to convict Verres?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice did Cicero have for Hortensius in his second speech against Verres?

2. As Cicero explained in his speech, what was at stake in the war against Mithridates?

3. What points did Cicero make about Verres' treatment of Roman citizens in Sicily?

4. How did Cicero describe the corrupt trials that Verres ran in Sicily?

5. How did Cicero describe Verres in In Verrem I?

6. What did Cicero tell the senate, Catiline, and the traitors at the end of In Catilinam I?

7. How did Cicero describe the conflict with Mithridates to the Romans in Chapter 3?

8. What are some of the reasons why Cicero gave a speech endorsing Pompey?

9. What reasons were given for why Cicero could not arrest or execute Catiline at the time he gave In Catilinam I?

10. Why was the senate losing patience with Catiline, and what outraged Cicero at the beginning of In Catilinam I?

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