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

2. In Chapter 12, Gordianus and Tiro go to the House of Swans. Who do they question there?
(a) Eruscius, a businessman.
(b) Scaldus, a slave.
(c) Electra, a prostitute.
(d) Crassus, a nobleman.

3. Who was with Roscius (pater) when he died?
(a) His faithful slaves.
(b) No one.
(c) His wife.
(d) A prostitute.

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

5. Why is Gordianus called the Finder?
(a) He is a treasure hunter.
(b) He charges a finder's fee for prosititutes.
(c) He functions like a bounty hunter and finds fugitives.
(d) He is a detective of sorts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relationship complicates that of Cicero and Tiro?

2. What is significant about Gordianus lacking a surname?

3. Who is Eco?

4. What is Gordianus's first impression of Cicero?

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

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