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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: The Dream of Scipio.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are external 'bads' considered to be, according to Cicero?
(a) Indifferents.
(b) Necessary to happiness.
(c) Unpreferables.
(d) Preferables.

3. Why is friendship more potent that kinship, according to Laelius ?
(a) Kinship does not imply a non-physical bond.
(b) Friendship is natural.
(c) Kinship is forced.
(d) Kinship is unnatural.

4. What did Cicero believe was the most divine thing in humans?
(a) Reason.
(b) Love.
(c) Rational.
(d) Compassion.

5. According to the introduction, what did Cicero take refuge in after a divorce, fights with friends, and his daughter's death?
(a) Reading.
(b) Observing nature.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scipio desire in his dream?

2. How many tones does the harmony contain, in "The Dream of Scipio"?

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

4. What does Africanus tell Scipio about Earth?

5. What does Africanus encourage Scipio to focus on, in his dream?

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