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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 is the recipient of the fifteenth letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Tullia.
(b) Verres.
(c) Marcus Terentius Varro.
(d) Pompey.

2. What is the main topic of the sixteenth letter?
(a) Cicero's daughter's wedding.
(b) Cicero's daughter's birth.
(c) Cicero's daughter's election.
(d) Cicero's daughter's death.

3. What are the moral standards of Publius Sulpicius, the judge?
(a) Open to bribes.
(b) Corrupted.
(c) Solemn and upright.
(d) Unscrupulous.

4. Whom does Cicero see in Rome according to the twenty-second letter?
(a) Gaius.
(b) Brutus.
(c) Verres.
(d) Caesar.

5. According to Cicero in his eighth argument against Verres, what responsibilities fell on Marcus Metellus?
(a) Extortion trials.
(b) Petty theft trials.
(c) Murder trials.
(d) Treason trials.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What virtue does Cicero hope Marcus Glabrio inherited from his father?

3. What is at stake if Lucius refuses to identify himself with the cause of Roman freedom, according to the final letter?

4. With what are the Roman tribunals branded?

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

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