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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, In Catilinam IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Cicero urge the Roman people to consider about the war in Chapter 3?
(a) Its character, but not scale.
(b) Its scale, but not character.
(c) Its character and scale.
(d) Neither its character nor its scale.

2. How did Cicero think the Roman people would react to sentencing the conspirators to death?
(a) They would support it eventually.
(b) They might not support it, but they would understand it.
(c) They would neither support it nor understand it.
(d) They would support it instantly.

3. How did Cicero intend for Rome to fight the second war in his speech for Pompey in Chapter 3?
(a) With the same rigor of the first.
(b) With the same intelligence as the first.
(c) In a more intelligent way than the first.
(d) Beyond the rigor of the first.

4. Would the proposal for Pompey to command the Roman forces against Mithridates have gone through without Cicero's speech?
(a) It is unknown.
(b) Most likely.
(c) Not likely.
(d) Only if Cicero gave an endorsement without a speech.

5. As pointed out in the senate debate, what might have made the execution of the conspirators illegal?
(a) They were not arrested properly.
(b) They were not given a trial.
(c) They did not confess to the crimes.
(d) They were just following Catiline's orders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tigranes was from ____________.

2. Why did Caesar think that the death penalty should not be applied to the conspirators?

3. How did Cicero explain that the death penalty for the conspirators would not be illegal?

4. What did Cicero think about Caesar's proposal of life imprisonment for the conspirators?

5. Which two things did Cicero say the Roman people were eager for in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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