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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. Who interprets right as the only good according to Cicero?
(a) Pompey.
(b) Antony.
(c) Curio.
(d) Panaetius.

2. How many senators have been condemned by the courts since restoring the tribunes?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) None.
(d) Two.

3. Whom is Cicero blaming for his wife's sorrow in his third letter?
(a) Himself.
(b) The war.
(c) His children.
(d) Caesar.

4. What examples does Cicero use to illustrate hard moral cases?
(a) Bad men stealing from useless men.
(b) Good men stealing from good men.
(c) Good men stealing from bad or useless men.
(d) Bad men stealing from good men.

5. According to Cicero, whose ideal is "to live consistently with nature"?
(a) Realists.
(b) Senators.
(c) Stoics.
(d) Jurists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Cicero propose to the recipient of the first letter?

2. Who bore a resemblance to wise men, but were not according to Cicero?

3. How does Cicero characterize robbery?

4. What is Cicero's wife's name, as noted in his third letter?

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

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