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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 danger does Cicero foresee despite preparing his case against Verres so well?
(a) Verres will be convicted.
(b) Verres will be acquitted.
(c) Verres will seek revenge.
(d) Verres will flee.

2. Why does Caesar claim to need Cicero?
(a) For Cicero's sake.
(b) For Pompey's sake.
(c) For the empire's sake.
(d) For Caesar's sake.

3. What is Cicero nervous about in his seventh letter?
(a) The new Triumvirate.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) The war.
(d) The provincial Governorship appointee.

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

5. How many chests of money were left at "some senator's house"?
(a) Five chests.
(b) Ten chests.
(c) Four chests.
(d) Eight chests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the new consul elect tell Verres when Verres congratulated him for his victory?

2. Who is Sicily's praetor?

3. Whose speech does Cicero go and listen to according to the twenty-first letter?

4. Who wrote the ninth letter?

5. What is the main topic of the sixteenth letter?

(see the answer key)

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