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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cicero argue the art of oratory requires?
(a) Knowing its audience.
(b) Being condifdent.
(c) Speaking well and knowing its subjects.
(d) Knowing its people.

2. Who challenges Crassus' views with historical counter-examples?
(a) Scaevola.
(b) Dante.
(c) Antonius.
(d) Cicero.

3. What does Crassus argue great orators cannot restrict themselves to?
(a) Oratory.
(b) Courts.
(c) The Forum.
(d) The Pantheon.

4. What do the younger men ask Crassus to tell them in "On the Orator"?
(a) The nature of oratory.
(b) The nature of art.
(c) How he became a polished orator.
(d) If they could be good orators.

5. What does reciprocity suggest about friendship, according to "Laelius: On Friendship"?
(a) The relationship is based on exhange.
(b) Everything is reciprocal.
(c) Friendship is not based on exchange.
(d) Frienship is not a reciprocal relationship.

6. What does Cicero hope to save through writing, "On the Orator"?
(a) Himself.
(b) His own talent.
(c) His country from decay.
(d) The talent of others.

7. What does Africanus encourage Scipio to do when he returns home in his dream?
(a) To not abandon hope.
(b) To stay brave.
(c) To fight for his country.
(d) To remain calm.

8. What does the dream of "The Dream of Scipio" illustrate?
(a) Magic.
(b) Mortality.
(c) Authentic relationships.
(d) Selective immortality.

9. When did Laelius's friend die in relation to when Cicero wrote "Laelius: On Friendship"?
(a) While he was writing it.
(b) 150 or 140 years prior.
(c) A few years before he wrote it.
(d) A few years after he wrote it.

10. When was Cicero's essay "Laelius: On Friendship" written?
(a) Before Caesar's assasination.
(b) After his divorce.
(c) After Caesar's assasination.
(d) After his daughter's death.

11. How does Antonius feel the orator should approach speech?
(a) Confidently.
(b) Timidly.
(c) Nervously.
(d) Daringly.

12. What does Crassus compare oratory to?
(a) Concerts.
(b) Legal practice.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Singing.

13. Where must Scipio's soul return, according to his dream?
(a) His planet.
(b) The afterlife.
(c) His country.
(d) Earth.

14. Why are great orators hard to find, according to Cicero in "On the Orator"?
(a) Many speak well, but lack information.
(b) Few have the mastery of the many distinct arts.
(c) Many have information on many arts, but speak poorly.
(d) Stage fright.

15. Whom does Cicero note the art of oratory is possessed by?
(a) Only a few.
(b) All rulers.
(c) He and his friend.
(d) He alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Cicero ask his brother, concerning what great oratory requires?

2. What does God want Scipio to do, in "The Dream of Scipio"?

3. Who does Scipio greet in his dream?

4. What two types of men cannot be friends, according to Laelius?

5. What does Africanus argue about God, in "The Dream of Scipio"?

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