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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do true friends not enjoy doing, according to Laelius?
(a) Criticizing you.
(b) Listening to you.
(c) Spending time with you.
(d) Talking to you.

3. What does oratory require beside good speech, according to "On the Orator"?
(a) Knowledge of many subjects.
(b) A desire to move others through words.
(c) Motivated thought.
(d) General idea of other topics.

4. What must the apprentice orator do?
(a) Take voice lessons.
(b) Practice in front of groups.
(c) Study.
(d) Research.

5. What does Africanus encourage Scipio to learn in his dream?
(a) Immortality.
(b) Frienship.
(c) Love.
(d) Oratory.

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

7. How many tones does the harmony contain, in "The Dream of Scipio"?
(a) 8.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

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

9. What must the orator master?
(a) Thought.
(b) The entire sphere of philosophy.
(c) Science.
(d) Art.

10. Who does Scipio greet in his dream?
(a) No one.
(b) His dad.
(c) His friend, Kind Basinissa.
(d) His grandfather.

11. What do Rufus and Crassus need to become good orators?
(a) To practice.
(b) To study under each of them.
(c) Enthusiasm and training.
(d) To study and research.

12. Who does Laelius speak with about his friendship with Scipio?
(a) Gaiety.
(b) Gaius Fannius.
(c) Frank Griffin.
(d) Fennigan.

13. When was the excerpt of "The Dream of Scipio" rediscovered?
(a) Post revolutionary war.
(b) Prior to Cicero's "On the Good Life."
(c) The medieval period.
(d) The Renaissance.

14. What is an earth year in comparison to a cosmic year, according to "The Dream of Scipio"?
(a) They are equal in length.
(b) A big part of ot.
(c) They are unrelated.
(d) A small part of it.

15. How long does friendship last in accordance with what Laelius connects friendship to?
(a) Forever, since nature is eternal.
(b) When a fight happens.
(c) Til desires change.
(d) Til changes occur in the people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laelius believe makes goods truly good?

2. What does Cicero argue the art of oratory requires?

3. What do the younger men ask Crassus to tell them in "On the Orator"?

4. What is the name of Cicero's brother he writes to?

5. What exists in the smallest sphere discussed in "The Dream of Scipio"?

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