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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Cato the Elder on Old Age, On Old Age.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Cicero say Rome could be at war?
(a) The barbarians.
(b) The goths.
(c) Greece.
(d) Parthians.

2. According to Cicero in his eighteenth argument against Verres, what will change during the trial in comparison to the "old mode"?
(a) The witnesses will be anonymous.
(b) Cicero will talk and then produce the witnesses.
(c) The witnesses will be called as the counts are brought forward.
(d) The witnesses will be ignored.

3. Who would have prevented Antony from going to Cicero's home, according to Cicero?
(a) Cicero himself.
(b) Verres.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Gaius Scribonius Curio.

4. Who rescued the Senate from annihilation according to Cicero?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Sicca.
(c) Himself.
(d) Antony.

5. Who was elected consul during the election just prior to the start of the trial?
(a) Verres' friend, Caetus.
(b) Verres' lawyer, Hortensius.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Cicero.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cicero promise to the Roman people?

2. Who is modeling his actions after Rome's past enemies?

3. What are goodness and right?

4. Who wrote the ninth letter?

5. Who co-wrote the eighth letter with Cicero?

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