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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. How many senators have been condemned by the courts since restoring the tribunes?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) None.
(d) Two.

2. Who helped Antony be elected as augur?
(a) Quintus Hortensius.
(b) Curio.
(c) Verres.
(d) Pompey.

3. Whom does Cicero call "brave men"?
(a) Two Deciuses.
(b) Two senators.
(c) Two verres.
(d) Two Gurios.

4. To whom did Cicero send the third letter?
(a) Verres.
(b) His wife.
(c) Pompey.
(d) Caesar.

5. What does Cicero say never advances the interests of an individual?
(a) Judges.
(b) Greed.
(c) Injustice.
(d) Coveting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Cicero going when he wrote the second letter?

3. What does one side think of the attitude of the merchant who doesn't tell the other merchants about the food shortage?

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

5. What consul, in particular, is Cicero happy with according to the twenty-third letter?

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