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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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 Gordianus begins his investigation in Chapter 9, where does he go?
(a) Roscius's favorite ale house.
(b) Esquiline Hill.
(c) The street where the House of Swans is located.
(d) Ameria.

5. How does Cicero's house indicate that he is of a higher class?
(a) Gordianus must wash his feet before entering.
(b) He lives in a fancy neighborhood.
(c) He has a gate around his home.
(d) He has a family crest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tiro go to the home of Gordianus?

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

3. What is Cicero's client accused of?

4. What does Gordianus learn from his first meeting with Sextus Roscius (filius)?

5. Where does Gordianus encounter Marcus Licinius Crassus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would the shopkeeper and his wife lie about witnessing the attack of Roscius?

2. If traveling to Ameria alone is so dangerous, why doesn't Gordianus take a companion or a guard?

3. Why does Polia think she is protecting Eco by lying about him witnessing the attack?

4. Why does Gordianus mention the fog at the end of Chapter 15?

5. What is the purpose of the author's inclusion of the scene where Gordianus and Tiro see a gladiator stabbed while they are walking to Cicero's house?

6. Do you think Gauis's death was accidental or a murder? Why?

7. Why does Gordianus loan Bethesda to the household of the stable master?

8. How would you describe Caecilia Metella?

9. In Chapter 5, Cicero says to Tiro, "A fit subject for debate: Is it possible that a slave can be too loyal to his master? That is to say, too enthusiastic in his devotion, too ready to spring to his master's defense." What is your answer to that question?

10. Why does Cicero send Tiro instead of a lesser slave to the home of Gordianus?

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