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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the personal connection between Verres and Metellus?
(a) Childhood friend.
(b) None.
(c) Step brother.
(d) Cousin.

2. Who was elected consul during the election just prior to the start of the trial?
(a) Verres' friend, Caetus.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Verres' lawyer, Hortensius.

3. What is at stake if Lucius refuses to identify himself with the cause of Roman freedom, according to the final letter?
(a) Lucius' life.
(b) Lucius' citizenship.
(c) Lucius' money.
(d) Lucius' position.

4. What will Cicero be after Hortensius is consul?
(a) In exile.
(b) A praetor.
(c) An aedile.
(d) Sicily's consul.

5. What are the moral standards of Publius Sulpicius, the judge?
(a) Open to bribes.
(b) Corrupted.
(c) Solemn and upright.
(d) Unscrupulous.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Cicero say Rome could be at war?

2. What did Sicily's praetor, speaking as the consul, tell Sicilians about Verres?

3. Why does Caesar claim to need Cicero?

4. Who hates Verres more than the Roman people in the fifteenth argument?

5. How many chests of money were left at "some senator's house"?

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