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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 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 death.
(d) Cicero's daughter's election.

2. What caused dissension, according to the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Lucius' influence.
(b) Lucius' bribes.
(c) Lucius' letter.
(d) Lucius' speech.

3. In the fourteenth letter, Cicero claims that ___________ delivered Atticus' previous letter.
(a) Tullia.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Tiro.

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

5. How many chests of money were left at "some senator's house"?
(a) Eight chests.
(b) Four chests.
(c) Ten chests.
(d) Five chests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the former position of Antony's father-in-law?

2. According to Cicero, who is the best tragic poet?

3. According to Cicero in his eighth argument against Verres, what responsibilities fell on Marcus Metellus?

4. Who interprets right as the only good according to Cicero?

5. To whom did Cicero write the second letter?

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