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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. In the fifteenth letter, how does Cicero qualify the state of the country?
(a) In revolt.
(b) In chaos.
(c) In trouble.
(d) Good.

2. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?
(a) Part of the triumvirate.
(b) Praetor.
(c) Senator.
(d) Judge.

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

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

5. How much money did Verres embezzled?
(a) 10,000 sesterces.
(b) 300,000 sesterces.
(c) 400,000,000 sesterces.
(d) 400,000 sesterces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helped Cicero fend off attempts by Verres to tarnish him?

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

3. Whom is Cicero blaming for his wife's sorrow in his third letter?

4. In the fourteenth letter, Cicero claims that ___________ delivered Atticus' previous letter.

5. In the eighteenth letter, who came to Cicero's house?

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