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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, In Verrum II.5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which type of speech were the speeches against Verres considered?
(a) Only judicial.
(b) Political and judicial.
(c) Neither political nor judicial.
(d) Only political.

2. In addition to a listing of the crimes Verres had committed, what else was included in Cicero's speech in Chapter 2?
(a) A list of Verres' accomplices.
(b) A list of possible witnesses.
(c) An attack against Verres' friends.
(d) An attack against defending the crimes.

3. What year were the speeches of In Verrem given?
(a) 70 B.C.
(b) 71 B.C.
(c) 67 B.C.
(d) 68 B.C.

4. What had happened to the courts, according to Cicero in Chapter 1?
(a) They had been vindicated.
(b) They had been tarnished.
(c) They had been mocked.
(d) They had been disgraced.

5. Based on what Cicero said in his speech, how did many people feel about the possibility that Verres could use bribery to cause an acquittal?
(a) They were underestimating it.
(b) They were worried.
(c) They were overestimating it.
(d) They were not worried.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Cicero promise to the jurors at the end of his first speech against Verres?

2. How many galleys did Heracleo sail around the coast to taunt the people?

3. How did Verres make it appear as though he was saving the people in his region from slave revolts?

4. Did Cicero say that the region Verres governed could be restored to its previous state?

5. As Cicero stated in his first speech against Verres, what would a failure to convict cause?

(see the answer key)

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