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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) By a river.
(d) Cicero's apartment.

2. Which medieval thinker admired Cicero, according to Grant?
(a) Plutarch.
(b) Petrarch.
(c) Aquinas.
(d) Dante.

3. What did an ancient ethical view believe was necessary for happiness?
(a) Being true to oneself.
(b) Stability.
(c) Friends.
(d) Being positive.

4. Who does Cicero compare Dionysius to?
(a) Plato and Archimedes.
(b) Dante and Plato.
(c) Petrach and Archimedes.
(d) Plato and Plutarch.

5. What did Cicero resist being identified with, according to Grant?
(a) Anyone religion.
(b) Dogmatism.
(c) Any woman.
(d) Any one school of philosphy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "On Duties," what will wise rulers win from their subjects?

3. How does the book of "On Duties" begin?

4. How many virtues does Cicero argue moral goodness is comprised of?

5. According to Laelius, what is friendship in accord with?

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