View a FREE sample

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

2. What is Cicero expressing concern for in his third letter?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Money.
(c) Justice.
(d) War.

3. In the eighteenth letter, who came to Cicero's house?
(a) Atticus.
(b) Brutus.
(c) Tiro.
(d) Caesar.

4. What caused dissension, according to the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Lucius' speech.
(b) Lucius' bribes.
(c) Lucius' influence.
(d) Lucius' letter.

5. According to Cicero in his first point in Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I, how does Cicero see the court as being?
(a) In disarray.
(b) In chaos.
(c) In discredit.
(d) In good moral standing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the moral standards of Publius Sulpicius, the judge?

2. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?

3. In the fourteenth letter, Cicero claims that ___________ delivered Atticus' previous letter.

4. To whom did Cicero send the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 192 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample