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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Attack on an Enemy of Freedom, The Second Philippic against Antony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ulysses do to avoid military service?
(a) Stopped the war.
(b) Fled the country.
(c) Simulated madness.
(d) Married.

2. What are goodness and right?
(a) Synonymous.
(b) Never used together.
(c) Homonyms.
(d) Antonymous.

3. What virtue does Cicero hope Marcus Glabrio inherited from his father?
(a) Resisting audacious men.
(b) Physical strength.
(c) Financial planning.
(d) Staying sober.

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

5. In Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence, to whom did Cicero write the first letter?
(a) Anthony.
(b) Cato.
(c) Verres.
(d) Pompey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Cicero write the fourth letter?

2. According to Cicero, whose ideal is "to live consistently with nature"?

3. Whose speech does Cicero go and listen to according to the twenty-first letter?

4. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?

5. According to the twenty-first letter, what is Cicero's reaction to the speech which he heard?

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