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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, A Practical Code of Behavior, On Duties, III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What definition does Cicero give of a sharp practice?
(a) Making money selling food.
(b) Making money honestly.
(c) Making money based on fraud.
(d) Making money with a partner.

2. What happened to Curio's friend after Antony's election as augur?
(a) He was invited to be a senator.
(b) He received money.
(c) He fled Rome.
(d) He was condemned for the use of violence.

3. What favor did Cicero acknowledge Antony did for him?
(a) Antony got him out of jail.
(b) Antony helped him get elected.
(c) Antony didn't kill him.
(d) Antony loaned him money.

4. What does one side think of the attitude of the merchant who doesn't tell the other merchants about the food shortage?
(a) Honest.
(b) Deceiving.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Ridiculous.

5. According to Cicero in Attack on an Enemy of Freedom, The Second Philippic against Antony, what did Rome's enemies have in common?
(a) They were old men.
(b) They were all senators.
(c) They were all Romans.
(d) They made an enemy of Cicero as well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will the law always imperfectly mirror according to Cicero?

2. Where does Caesar invite Cicero in the thirteenth letter?

3. What would make it right for an honest man to steal from a tyrant to save his life according to Cicero?

4. What consul, in particular, is Cicero happy with according to the twenty-third letter?

5. What level does the duty of becoming wiser and better occupy, according to Cicero's arguments?

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