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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Laelius: On Friendship.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who takes the dictatorial control in "Laelius: On Friendship"?
(a) Brutus.
(b) Marcus Antonius.
(c) Cassius.
(d) Crassus.

2. What prevented a person from being happy, according to Cicero?
(a) Not being morally good.
(b) Not having friends.
(c) Not having a house.
(d) Not having money.

3. What are external goods merely considered to be by Cicero?
(a) Preferables.
(b) Unpreferables.
(c) Indifferents.
(d) Necessary to happiness.

4. According to Cicero, how does he view tyrannies?
(a) Unstable.
(b) Needed.
(c) Unnecessary.
(d) Stable.

5. Who does Laelius speak with about his friendship with Scipio?
(a) Fennigan.
(b) Gaiety.
(c) Frank Griffin.
(d) Gaius Fannius.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the argument in "Discussions at Tusculum" begin?

2. What does Cicero emphasize in the third and fourth principles in "On Duties"?

3. What deep question does Laelius struggle with?

4. What is essential between two nations, according to Cicero in "On Duties"?

5. Where is the setting of "Discussions at Tusculum"?

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