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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Ideal Constitution, Writing about Politics, 55-43 B.C..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Cicero's birthday?
(a) February 23.
(b) January 23.
(c) January 3.
(d) February 3.

2. How many years were there between when Cicero's daughter was married and the actual wedding?
(a) Ten.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

3. How many men that Catalina recruited began to leave after Cicero stopped the conspiracy?
(a) Ten thousand.
(b) Fourteen thousand.
(c) Eighteen thousand.
(d) Twenty thousand.

4. What was On the State written about?
(a) The ideal military and the ideal war.
(b) Responses to common legal questions.
(c) The ideal constitution and the ideal citizen.
(d) Responses to common political questions.

5. Which of Cicero's books were written in dialogue form?
(a) Only On Law.
(b) On the State and On Law.
(c) Only On the State.
(d) Neither On the State nor On Law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Cicero defend in his book about oratory in Chapter 8?

2. Following Clodius' death, what was Pompey asked to do for the city?

3. What impressed Cicero about the potential of becoming an advocate in Chapter 2?

4. What small town was Cicero born in?

5. At the end of 52 B.C., what depended on the alliance between Caesar and Pompey?

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