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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grant state Cicero was excellent at doing?
(a) Popularizing ideas.
(b) Manifesting ideas.
(c) Challenging ideas.
(d) Deepening ideas.

2. What or whom does Michael Grant, the author of the introduction, introduce?
(a) Himself.
(b) Greek philosophy.
(c) Roman philosophy.
(d) Marcus Tullius Cicero.

3. When did Cicero's reputation decline, according to the introduction?
(a) It never declined.
(b) The 18th century.
(c) The 19th century.
(d) The 17th century.

4. In what period did Cicero gain great fame?
(a) The Dark Ages.
(b) 200 years after his death.
(c) Just after his death.
(d) The Renaissance.

5. According to the introduction, how did the younger Seneca receive Cicero?
(a) He praised him, but found his writings shallow.
(b) He noted him once in one of his essays.
(c) He read him only to challenge his work.
(d) He slammed him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of interest did the Romans have towards philosophy, according to Grant?

3. Who was Cicero worried about, according to the introduction?

4. Who favored Cicero?

5. What does much of Cicero's writing contain, according to Grant?

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