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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 does Cicero promise to the Roman people?
(a) To convict Verres.
(b) To raise taxes.
(c) To be corrupt.
(d) To be honorable and fair.

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

3. Who bore a resemblance to wise men, but were not according to Cicero?
(a) The Oracles.
(b) Antony's supporters.
(c) The Seven Wise Men.
(d) The senators.

4. What does Cicero think cannot be done by Antony?
(a) Accuse Cicero of a false crime.
(b) Disparage Cicero in front of the tribune.
(c) Banish Cicero.
(d) Disparage Cicero in front of the senate.

5. According to Cicero, whose ideal is "to live consistently with nature"?
(a) Realists.
(b) Senators.
(c) Jurists.
(d) Stoics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the personal connection between Verres and Metellus?

2. What qualifies Quintus Catulus, according to Cicero?

3. What did Cicero propose to the recipient of the first letter?

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

5. What defeated Verres' imprudence in selecting the judges to attempt to bribe?

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