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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 does Caesar claim was always advantageous according to Cicero?
(a) Immoral actions.
(b) Morally right actions.
(c) Military victories.
(d) Bribes.

2. What reason does Antony give for visiting Cicero's house?
(a) To spy on him.
(b) To receive his tuition.
(c) He was friends with his son.
(d) To court his daughter.

3. With whom does Cicero say Rome could be at war?
(a) The barbarians.
(b) Greece.
(c) Parthians.
(d) The goths.

4. What did Anthony claim to have done during the election of the augurship?
(a) To have retired in Cicero's favor.
(b) To have won the election.
(c) To not have participated.
(d) To have bought votes.

5. What does Cicero say might sometimes be in the advantage of a country?
(a) Going to war.
(b) Breaking a treaty.
(c) Signing a treaty.
(d) Electing dishonest officials.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men came to Cicero's house according to the eighteenth letter?

2. Whom does Cicero call "brave men"?

3. What are goodness and right?

4. Who interprets right as the only good according to Cicero?

5. Who is the recipient of the fifteenth letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?

(see the answer key)

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