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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. What philosophy does Panaetius follow?
(a) Peripatetic.
(b) Patetic.
(c) Elitist.
(d) Stoics.

2. Who helped Antony be elected as augur?
(a) Verres.
(b) Quintus Hortensius.
(c) Curio.
(d) Pompey.

3. What does Cato no longer focus on during parties?
(a) Senators and politics.
(b) Food and drink.
(c) Politics and the law.
(d) Women and drink.

4. What will Cicero be after Hortensius is consul?
(a) An aedile.
(b) A praetor.
(c) Sicily's consul.
(d) In exile.

5. In the second section of A Practical Code of Behavior, who can see how goodness and rightness are related?
(a) People with perfect wisdom.
(b) People with low intelligence.
(c) People with flowed logic.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first section of A Practical Code of Behavior, whom does Cicero praise?

2. What does Cato say is good about old age?

3. According to Cicero in his eighteenth argument against Verres, what will change during the trial in comparison to the "old mode"?

4. Whom does Cicero see in Rome according to the twenty-second letter?

5. According to certain people, what can excuse wrong doing?

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