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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. How does Cicero qualify the people endowed with perfect wisdom?
(a) Senators.
(b) Out of touch with reality.
(c) Common.
(d) Hypothetical.

2. What impact does sharp practice have on the community?
(a) Bad.
(b) Makes the people want more money.
(c) No impact.
(d) Good.

3. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?
(a) Praetor.
(b) Judge.
(c) Part of the triumvirate.
(d) Senator.

4. According to Cicero, whose ideal is "to live consistently with nature"?
(a) Realists.
(b) Jurists.
(c) Senators.
(d) Stoics.

5. Whom is Cicero blaming for his wife's sorrow in his third letter?
(a) Himself.
(b) The war.
(c) Caesar.
(d) His children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who co-wrote the eighth letter with Cicero?

2. What does Gaius not do according to Cicero in the twenty-third letter?

3. Who discovered that Ulysses was faking madness?

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

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

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