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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. How does Cicero feel about Gaius' chance for victory against his rival?
(a) He is pessimistic.
(b) He is realistic.
(c) He is in denial.
(d) He is optimistic.

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

3. To whom did Cicero write the second letter?
(a) His wife.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Atticus.
(d) Verres.

4. Whom does Verres think ill of in Cicero's third argument against Verres?
(a) Thieves.
(b) The Senate.
(c) The judges.
(d) Virtuous men.

5. Who wrote the ninth letter?
(a) Cicero.
(b) Cicero's wife.
(c) Pompey.
(d) Tiro.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence, to whom did Cicero write the first letter?

2. What does Verres do with the money embezzled during his third year as Sicilian praetor?

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

4. Where does Caesar invite Cicero in the thirteenth letter?

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

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