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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. Where is the setting of "Discussions at Tusculum"?
(a) Cicero's country villa.
(b) Cicero's friends house.
(c) Cicero's apartment.
(d) By a river.

2. What does Laelius argue about a life without friends?
(a) It is not worth living.
(b) It is unfulfilled.
(c) It is lonely.
(d) It is simple and peaceful.

3. What did Cicero believe the result would be if happiness was only achieved by certain goods?
(a) That happiness was permanent.
(b) That happiness could only be perfected by possessing imperishable goods.
(c) That happiness was unnecessary.
(d) That unhappiness did not exist.

4. According to the introduction, who did Cicero criticize?
(a) Romans that were too "hellenized."
(b) Greeks.
(c) The church.
(d) Romans.

5. What does Cicero claim about the text of 'Laelius: On Friendship"?
(a) He came up with the content.
(b) It is a transcription from one of his teachers.
(c) He heard it somewhere.
(d) It is borrowed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Cicero believe was the most divine thing in humans?

2. What was the result of Cicero's desire to capture others thought in his writing's?

3. According to Cicero, what will breed resentment in a ruler's subjects?

4. What are the series of arguments about in "On Duties"?

5. What are the third and fourth principles concerned with, in "On Duties"?

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