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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 is the main topic of the sixteenth letter?
(a) Cicero's daughter's wedding.
(b) Cicero's daughter's election.
(c) Cicero's daughter's birth.
(d) Cicero's daughter's death.

2. Why does Caesar claim to need Cicero?
(a) For the empire's sake.
(b) For Cicero's sake.
(c) For Caesar's sake.
(d) For Pompey's sake.

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

4. What reason could a sick man use to break a promise of payment?
(a) Leave money to his children.
(b) Pay for a more comfortable bed.
(c) To buy medicine.
(d) Party one last time.

5. Who helped Antony be elected as augur?
(a) Verres.
(b) Curio.
(c) Quintus Hortensius.
(d) Pompey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should the invisible man do according to Cicero?

2. How does the dishonest man hide his crimes in section five?

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

4. What philosophy does Panaetius follow?

5. In Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence, to whom did Cicero write the first letter?

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