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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, In Catilinam III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Cicero do for one of the envoys that shared information about Lentulus' plot?
(a) Offered them immunity.
(b) Reduced their prison sentence.
(c) Paid them a fee.
(d) Ended their exile.

2. Which type of reward did Cicero request after preventing a civil war in Chapter 6?
(a) Property.
(b) None.
(c) Gold.
(d) Money.

3. Whom did Catiline sit with while listening to Cicero's first speech against him?
(a) A group of senators.
(b) No one.
(c) His counsel.
(d) Another senator.

4. Which two things did Cicero say the Roman people were eager for in Chapter 3?
(a) Land and renown.
(b) Glory and treasure.
(c) Glory and renown.
(d) Treasure and land.

5. Since Cicero could not likely speak against anyone else in the senate the way he had spoken of Catiline, whose respect did Catiline lose?
(a) His followers.
(b) The Roman citizens.
(c) The people of other regions.
(d) The senate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year were the speeches of In Verrem given?

2. Why did the senate apologize to Cicero after hearing the evidence against Catiline?

3. Cicero told the jurors that the attempt to bribe them should be taken as ______________.

4. How did Cicero end his final speech to Verres in Chapter 2?

5. What happened to remove all doubt of Catiline's guilt?

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