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

2. What caused dissension, according to the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Lucius' speech.
(b) Lucius' influence.
(c) Lucius' bribes.
(d) Lucius' letter.

3. Who hates Verres more than the Roman people in the fifteenth argument?
(a) Cnaeus Tremellius.
(b) Cicero.
(c) The judges.
(d) Hortensius.

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

5. What did Sicily's praetor, speaking as the consul, tell Sicilians about Verres?
(a) Verres will flee Italy.
(b) Verres will be convicted.
(c) There is no possibility of Verres being convicted.
(d) Verres is asking for their pardon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sicily's praetor?

2. How many children does Cicero say he has in his third letter?

3. In what did Verres put his expectation of safety?

4. What will stop Cicero's fight against wicked men?

5. According to Cicero in his sixth argument against Verres, what did Verres try to do after the consular comitia?

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