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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Attack on an Enemy of Freedom, The Second Philippic against Antony.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who hates Verres more than the Roman people in the fifteenth argument?
(a) The judges.
(b) Cnaeus Tremellius.
(c) Hortensius.
(d) Cicero.

3. What argument did Anthony use to justify going after Cicero?
(a) Cicero spoke against Antony at a friend's lawsuit.
(b) Cicero stole from Antony.
(c) Cicero married Antony's love interest.
(d) Cicero beat Antony in an election.

4. To whom did Cicero send the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Tiro.
(b) Atticus.
(c) Lucius Munatius Plancus.
(d) Julius Caesar.

5. Who discovered that Ulysses was faking madness?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Palamedes.
(c) Antony.
(d) The barbarians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helped Cicero fend off attempts by Verres to tarnish him?

2. Who rescued the Senate from annihilation according to Cicero?

3. How many senators have been condemned by the courts since restoring the tribunes?

4. According to Cicero, who is the best tragic poet?

5. What will stop Cicero's fight against wicked men?

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