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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 was Catiline's main quality according to Cicero?
(a) Unreliable.
(b) Good orator.
(c) Outrageous.
(d) Funny.

2. What level does the duty of becoming wiser and better occupy, according to Cicero's arguments?
(a) High.
(b) First.
(c) Middle.
(d) Low.

3. Who nominated Cicero for the position of augur?
(a) Pompey and Quintus Hortensius.
(b) Gaius Scribonius Curio.
(c) Verres.
(d) Julius Caesar.

4. In Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence, to whom did Cicero write the first letter?
(a) Verres.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Anthony.
(d) Cato.

5. According to certain people, what can excuse wrong doing?
(a) A high prize.
(b) A low prize.
(c) Money.
(d) Honesty about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fourteenth letter, Cicero claims that ___________ delivered Atticus' previous letter.

2. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?

3. What examples does Cicero use to illustrate hard moral cases?

4. What favor did Cicero acknowledge Antony did for him?

5. In the fifteenth letter, how does Cicero qualify the state of the country?

(see the answer key)

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