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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, A Practical Code of Behavior, On Duties, III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Verres do with the money embezzled during his third year as Sicilian praetor?
(a) Hid it for when he needed to flee.
(b) Put it aside to bribe judges.
(c) Gave it to his associates.
(d) Spent it on real estate.

2. What would explain Antony trying to put Cicero at odds with the Senate?
(a) He wants to take Cicero's place in the Senate.
(b) He wants to disband the Senate.
(c) He wants to ban Cicero from Rome.
(d) He wants to compete with Cicero as a speaker.

3. Who nominated Cicero for the position of augur?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Pompey and Quintus Hortensius.
(c) Gaius Scribonius Curio.
(d) Verres.

4. With whom does Cicero say Rome could be at war?
(a) The barbarians.
(b) Greece.
(c) The goths.
(d) Parthians.

5. Where was Cicero going when he wrote the second letter?
(a) To Vilnius.
(b) To Epirus.
(c) To Cartage.
(d) To Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What qualifies Quintus Catulus, according to Cicero?

2. What does Gaius not do according to Cicero in the twenty-third letter?

3. What is Scipio's son's name?

4. According to Cicero in his eighteenth argument against Verres, what will change during the trial in comparison to the "old mode"?

5. Why would it be an advantage for a merchant to arrive early at a market during a food shortage?

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