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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Portents: Chapters 16 - 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Valeria?
(a) Rufus's betrothed.
(b) Sulla's current wife and Rufus's sister.
(c) Chrysogonus's wife.
(d) Rufus's sister and Cicero's wife.

2. Who are Magnus and Capito?
(a) Relatives of the tavern owner.
(b) Cousins of Roscius.
(c) Slaves of Roscius.
(d) Neighbors of Roscius.

3. What disability does Eco have?
(a) He has a low IQ.
(b) He is mute.
(c) He cannot walk.
(d) He is deaf.

4. When Cicero asks Gordianus the question in his library, what does Gordianus think of him then?
(a) That Cicero is a scoundrel.
(b) That Cicero suspects him of the murder.
(c) That Cicero knows something he doesn't.
(d) That Cicero likes to have intellectual discussions.

5. Marucs Tullius Tiro is___________.
(a) A young man.
(b) A freed slave.
(c) The murder suspect.
(d) Cicero's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rufus does not want to attend a party where Sulla will be present because __________________.

2. How important was social class in ancient Rome?

3. What does the tavern owner tell Gordianus that he finds hard to believe?

4. What does Carus reveal to Gordianus?

5. Gordianus discovers, upon returning to his house after a day of investigating, that_______________________.

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