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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Justice: Chapters 27 - 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Roscius not want to go to trial?
(a) He is worried he will be killed no matter what.
(b) He wishes he could repair the Roscii name.
(c) He is afraid for what will become of his wife and daughters.
(d) He is adamant that he is being framed.

2. What surprising announcement does Rufus bring at the end of Chapter 32?
(a) Magnus and Capito are dead.
(b) Caecilia is dead.
(c) A mob wants Cicero dead.
(d) Roscius is dead.

3. What do Caecilia Metella and Rufus Messalla have in common?
(a) Their sisters were both married to Sulla.
(b) They are brother and sister.
(c) They both hate Gordianus.
(d) They both know Cicero.

4. What clues are provided in Chapter 3 to indicate Cicero's class?
(a) He owns many slaves and his family background is explained.
(b) He wears only the best cloth and has fine paintings on the walls.
(c) Gordianus is expected to bow to Cicero, but Cicero does not bow in return.
(d) Cicero has many wives.

5. What relationship complicates that of Cicero and Tiro?
(a) Tiro is somebody else's slave, but has run away to stay with Cicero.
(b) Tiro was born into the same class as Cicero, but his family was disgraced and that is why he is a slave.
(c) Tiro is Cicero's illegitimate son.
(d) Tiro's grandfather is a freed slave of Cicero's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cicero's house indicate that he is of a higher class?

2. What is significant about Gordianus lacking a surname?

3. What disability does Eco have?

4. In Chapter 32, what does Sulla say is the reason Capito and Magnus did not turn Roscius in at first?

5. What does Gordianus decide to do after Sulla leaves Cicero's house?

(see the answer key)

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