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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 did Cicero propose to the recipient of the first letter?
(a) To pay him for counsel.
(b) To be a senator.
(c) To vote for him.
(d) To be his political ally.

2. Who requested that Cicero take the case against Verres?
(a) The Sicilians.
(b) Verres.
(c) The consul.
(d) The praetor

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

4. 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.

5. To whom did Cicero send the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Tiro.
(b) Lucius Munatius Plancus.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Atticus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the recipient of the fifteenth letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?

2. What is Cicero nervous about in his seventh letter?

3. In the seventeenth letter, what is Cicero's opinion of Brutus?

4. Where was Cicero going when he wrote the second letter?

5. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?

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