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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. To whom did Cicero send the third letter?
(a) Verres.
(b) Caesar.
(c) His wife.
(d) Pompey.

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

3. Whom does Verres think ill of in Cicero's third argument against Verres?
(a) Virtuous men.
(b) Thieves.
(c) The judges.
(d) The Senate.

4. Where did Cicero write the fourth letter?
(a) Milan.
(b) Rome.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Atticus.

5. What qualifies Quintus Catulus, according to Cicero?
(a) Poor judgment and honor.
(b) Sagacity and honor.
(c) Poor judgment and dishonesty.
(d) Sagacity and dishonesty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fifteenth letter, how does Cicero qualify the state of the country?

2. With whom does Cicero say Rome could be at war?

3. How much money did Verres embezzled?

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

5. In the seventeenth letter, what is Cicero's opinion of Brutus?

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