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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. In the second section of A Practical Code of Behavior, what does Cicero argue cannot be weighed against advantage?
(a) Law.
(b) Inconvenience.
(c) Ideal right.
(d) Justice.

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

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

4. In the twentieth letter, Cicero is glad of __________.
(a) Caesar's rise to power.
(b) His wife's visit.
(c) Tiro's remission.
(d) Caesar's death.

5. What would make it right for an honest man to steal from a tyrant to save his life according to Cicero?
(a) Common interest.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Human nature.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cicero say a man can balance advantages and rightness?

2. According to Cicero in his eleventh argument against Verres, who is his adversary in the courtroom?

3. According to Cicero in his first point in Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I, how does Cicero see the court as being?

4. What does Cicero promise to the Roman people?

5. What does Cicero wish philosophy will be to Scipio's son?

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