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

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

4. What was the result of Cicero's desire to capture others thought in his writing's?
(a) He was unoriginal.
(b) He was unthoughtful.
(c) He was too thoughful.
(d) He was thoughtless.

5. What did Cicero believe strongly about the virtues of philosophy?
(a) They were insightful.
(b) They were valid and rational.
(c) They took away the "load of empty troubles."
(d) They gave comfort to the fearful.

6. What happens once virtue is acquired, according to Cicero?
(a) It makes a person good, thus making him happy.
(b) It is permanent.
(c) It can not be lost except by free choice.
(d) It is temporary.

7. According to "On Duties," how do people find theft by the state?
(a) Absurd.
(b) Outrageous.
(c) Unjust.
(d) Necessary.

8. When did Cicero do his writing, according to the introduction?
(a) Between the 60s and early 50s A.D.
(b) Between the 60s and early 50s B.C.
(c) Between the late 60s-40s B.C.
(d) During the 60s B.C.

9. What does much of Cicero's writing contain, according to Grant?
(a) Roman philosphy.
(b) Prayers.
(c) Greek philosophy.
(d) Challenges to the public.

10. What did Stoics still think was preferable even if it did not add to happiness?
(a) Virtues.
(b) Love.
(c) External achievement.
(d) Relationships.

11. What did Cicero believe applied to every human, according to Grant?
(a) Ability to forgive.
(b) The natural law.
(c) The ration to love others.
(d) The golden rule.

12. According to Cicero, in "On Duties," which of the following will NOT inspire a good ruler's subjects?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Respect of high office.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Goodwill.

13. According to Grant, what did Cicero believe every human had to make them equal?
(a) A common bond.
(b) A common ancestry.
(c) A spark of divinity.
(d) Love.

14. What does Cicero emphasize in the third and fourth principles in "On Duties"?
(a) Taxes are inevitable.
(b) Expediency and rightness are connected.
(c) Love does not always prevail.
(d) Dictators need a balance in their ruling.

15. According to the introduction, what is Cicero NOT?
(a) Eager.
(b) Spirtual.
(c) Dogmatic.
(d) Trustworthy.