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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Always Be the Best, My Boy, The Bravest, From Arpinum to Rome, 106-82 B.C..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Cicero when the liquidations took place in Chapter 2?
(a) Around twenty eight.
(b) Around twenty two.
(c) Around thirty.
(d) Around twenty four.

2. What is another way to describe the social class of the Patricians?
(a) Lower class.
(b) Middle class.
(c) Aristocracy.
(d) The lower and middle class combined.

3. Which subjects did Cicero study extensively as a young man?
(a) Literature, philosophy, astronomy, and rhetoric.
(b) Literature, philosophy, and rhetoric.
(c) Literature, astronomy, and philosophy.
(d) Literature, rhetoric, and astronomy.

4. What impressed Cicero about the potential of becoming an advocate in Chapter 2?
(a) The money a public speaker could make.
(b) The audience's reaction to an advocate.
(c) The fame and power of an effective public speaker on the world.
(d) The impact an advocate could have in the courtroom.

5. Whose army did Cicero fight with in the War of Allies?
(a) Lucius Porcius Cato.
(b) Cnaeus Pompeius Strabo.
(c) Lucius Julius Caesar.
(d) Gaius Marius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What helped Rome to win the War of Allies?

2. How many years before Cicero was born did the crisis that would lead to the end of the Roman Republic begin?

3. What was absent from Rome that caused further troubles in managing their holdings?

4. When did the two Consuls trade seniority?

5. With the ability to exercise sovereign power, how many Praetors were there in the Roman government?

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