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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children does Cicero say he has in his third letter?
(a) No children.
(b) One child.
(c) Three children.
(d) Two children.

2. Who restored the tribunes?
(a) Marcus Atilius.
(b) Cnaeus Pompeius.
(c) Quintus Catulus.
(d) Cnaeus Tremellius.

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

4. How much money did Verres embezzled?
(a) 400,000,000 sesterces.
(b) 400,000 sesterces.
(c) 10,000 sesterces.
(d) 300,000 sesterces.

5. What virtue does Cicero hope Marcus Glabrio inherited from his father?
(a) Resisting audacious men.
(b) Physical strength.
(c) Staying sober.
(d) Financial planning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is at stake if Lucius refuses to identify himself with the cause of Roman freedom, according to the final letter?

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

3. Whom does Verres think ill of in Cicero's third argument against Verres?

4. What consul, in particular, is Cicero happy with according to the twenty-third letter?

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

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