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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: On the Orator.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must men have to resolve conflict, according to Cicero in "On Duties"?
(a) Resources.
(b) Respect.
(c) Rulers.
(d) Money.

2. What does Cicero aim to determine in "On the Orator"?
(a) What kind of man the orator must be to rule the Greek Empire.
(b) What makes a man a good orator.
(c) What kind of man the orator must be to rule the Roman Empire.
(d) Who is better at oratory than he is.

3. Why is statesmanship destroyed, according to "On Duties"?
(a) It isn't destroyed.
(b) Caesar eliminates its possibility to continue.
(c) Because the opportunities of statesmanship are destroyed.
(d) Because no one desires it anymore.

4. What deep question does Laelius struggle with?
(a) Whether the need for friendship is a deficiency.
(b) What friendship really is.
(c) Who his best friend is.
(d) What his deficiency is.

5. How does Cicero describe what philosophy's method does in "Discussions at Tusculum"?
(a) Freedom from one's pain and suffering.
(b) Challenging to its thinker.
(c) A release.
(d) Intense and though provoking.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cicero, how was the Stoics view counter-intuitive?

2. Which medieval thinker admired Cicero, according to Grant?

3. What is Cicero known as, according to "On the Orator"?

4. According to Cicero in "On Duties," what do men need?

5. What does Laelius believe makes goods truly good?

(see the answer key)

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