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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 definition does Cicero give of a sharp practice?
(a) Making money with a partner.
(b) Making money based on fraud.
(c) Making money honestly.
(d) Making money selling food.

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

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

4. In what did Verres put his expectation of safety?
(a) His innocence.
(b) Money.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) The judges.

5. What is Cicero expressing concern for in his third letter?
(a) Money.
(b) Justice.
(c) Freedom.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is modeling his actions after Rome's past enemies?

2. What are goodness and right?

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

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

5. What qualifies Quintus Catulus, according to Cicero?

(see the answer key)

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