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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. To whom did Cicero send the third letter?
(a) His wife.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Verres.
(d) Caesar.
2. What did Sicily's praetor, speaking as the consul, tell Sicilians about Verres?
(a) Verres will flee Italy.
(b) There is no possibility of Verres being convicted.
(c) Verres is asking for their pardon.
(d) Verres will be convicted.
3. What qualifies Quintus Catulus, according to Cicero?
(a) Sagacity and dishonesty.
(b) Poor judgment and honor.
(c) Poor judgment and dishonesty.
(d) Sagacity and honor.
4. In the eighteenth letter, who came to Cicero's house?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Atticus.
(c) Tiro.
(d) Brutus.
5. Why is Cicero trying to persuade Tiro from traveling?
(a) War is raging.
(b) Tiro is sick.
(c) Tiro is a fugitive.
(d) Tiro is old.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whom is Cicero blaming for his wife's sorrow in his third letter?
2. Who restored the tribunes?
3. Who helped Cicero fend off attempts by Verres to tarnish him?
4. What is Cicero's wife's name, as noted in his third letter?
5. What does Cicero state cannot happen in a court of law?
Short Essay Questions
1. What event does Cicero relate to Atticus in letters ten and eleven?
2. What is Cicero writing about in the seventh letter?
3. Who wrote the eighth letter and to whom was it written?
4. According to Cicero in his ninth argument, who tried to interfere with the trial and how?
5. What does Cicero complain about in the fourth letter?
6. What did Cicero tell Pompey in the first letter of Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence?
7. According to Cicero, what is the first thing Verres did when he came back from Sicily?
8. What does the ninth argument tell us about Cicero's opinion of Marcus Metellus?
9. What happened in Sicily under Verres' rule?
10. How does Cicero's opinion of Brutus change between the sixteenth and twenty-first letter?
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