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

2. Who helped Cicero fend off attempts by Verres to tarnish him?
(a) The police.
(b) The consul.
(c) The Senate.
(d) His friends.

3. How long did Cicero spend investigating Verres in Sicily?
(a) 40 days.
(b) 110 days.
(c) 75 days.
(d) 50 days.

4. What is Cicero's wife's name, as noted in his third letter?
(a) Aria.
(b) Era.
(c) Diane.
(d) Terentia.

5. According to Cicero in his fourth argument, what position did Verres occupy when he embezzled public money and abandoned his province?
(a) Quaestor.
(b) Consul.
(c) Praetor.
(d) Proquaestor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused dissension, according to the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?

2. What does Cicero state cannot happen in a court of law?

3. Which of the god's temples did Verres spare from being raided in Sicily?

4. Who co-wrote the eighth letter with Cicero?

5. Who restored the tribunes?

(see the answer key)

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