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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Cato the Elder on Old Age, On Old Age.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cicero consider and debate in section nine?
(a) If rightness is always necessary.
(b) If honesty is always necessary.
(c) If lying is always necessary.
(d) If stealing is always necessary.

2. According to Cicero in his eighteenth argument against Verres, what will change during the trial in comparison to the "old mode"?
(a) The witnesses will be called as the counts are brought forward.
(b) Cicero will talk and then produce the witnesses.
(c) The witnesses will be ignored.
(d) The witnesses will be anonymous.

3. Whom does Cicero choose to impersonate?
(a) Laelius.
(b) Himself.
(c) Cato.
(d) Scipio.

4. Who restored the tribunes?
(a) Cnaeus Pompeius.
(b) Cnaeus Tremellius.
(c) Marcus Atilius.
(d) Quintus Catulus.

5. What does Cato no longer focus on during parties?
(a) Politics and the law.
(b) Senators and politics.
(c) Food and drink.
(d) Women and drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caesar claim was always advantageous according to Cicero?

2. Who helped Antony be elected as augur?

3. According to Cicero, what would be the wrong thing for a merchant to do if there was knowledge of a food shortage?

4. According to Cicero, whose ideal is "to live consistently with nature"?

5. How does Cicero feel about Gaius' chance for victory against his rival?

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