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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 reason does Antony give for visiting Cicero's house?
(a) To court his daughter.
(b) To spy on him.
(c) He was friends with his son.
(d) To receive his tuition.

2. Why does Caesar claim to need Cicero?
(a) For Caesar's sake.
(b) For Pompey's sake.
(c) For the empire's sake.
(d) For Cicero's sake.

3. According to Cicero, whose ideal is "to live consistently with nature"?
(a) Stoics.
(b) Realists.
(c) Jurists.
(d) Senators.

4. According to Cicero, what would be the wrong thing for a merchant to do if there was knowledge of a food shortage?
(a) Give away food.
(b) Lower his prices.
(c) Increase his prices.
(d) Leave the market.

5. What should happen to people who steal?
(a) They should be put to death.
(b) They should be forgiven.
(c) They should be cut from society.
(d) They should experience the same crime.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the ninth letter?

2. What will the law always imperfectly mirror according to Cicero?

3. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?

4. According to Cicero in his fourth argument against Verres, what was the name of the consul Verres betrayed?

5. In the second section of A Practical Code of Behavior, what does Cicero argue cannot be weighed against advantage?

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