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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, High and Low: Chapters 1 -15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Cicero's client?
(a) Gordianus.
(b) Tiro.
(c) Marcus Valerius Messalla.
(d) Sextus Roscius (filius).

2. Sextus Roscious (pater) aligned himself with which family before he died?
(a) The highly intellectual Cicero family.
(b) The powerful Metelli family.
(c) The noble Rufus family.
(d) The wealthy Messalla family.

3. Sextus Roscius (pater) was fond of _____________.
(a) Food, drink, baths, and brothels.
(b) Food, sailing, prophisying, and brothels.
(c) Baths, brothels, money, and wine.
(d) Food, drink, family, and animals.

4. Who are Felix and Chrestus?
(a) Roscius's (pater) most trusted slaves.
(b) Cicero's brothers.
(c) Professional killers who were hired to kill Rocius (pater).
(d) Guards assigned to Roscius (filius).

5. At Cicero's home, whom does Gordianus meet?
(a) Tiro's grandfather.
(b) Tiro's wife.
(c) The murder suspect.
(d) Cicero's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Gordianus questions Polia, she__________________.

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

3. Where do Gordianus, Cicero and Tiro finally meet Sextus Roscius (filius)?

4. Gordianus finds a pool of blood and a bloody hand print near_________________.

5. What do Caecilia Metella and Rufus Messalla have in common?

(see the answer key)

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