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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. What does Verres do with the money embezzled during his third year as Sicilian praetor?
(a) Hid it for when he needed to flee.
(b) Spent it on real estate.
(c) Gave it to his associates.
(d) Put it aside to bribe judges.

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

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

4. In what did Verres put his expectation of safety?
(a) His innocence.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Money.
(d) The judges.

5. In Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence, to whom did Cicero write the first letter?
(a) Cato.
(b) Verres.
(c) Anthony.
(d) Pompey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom is Cicero blaming for his wife's sorrow in his third letter?

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

3. Where does Caesar invite Cicero in the thirteenth letter?

4. Who hates Verres more than the Roman people in the fifteenth argument?

5. Who restored the tribunes?

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