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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 is the main topic of section five in On Old Age?
(a) The law.
(b) Farming.
(c) War.
(d) Politics.

2. What is the personal connection between Verres and Metellus?
(a) Childhood friend.
(b) Cousin.
(c) None.
(d) Step brother.

3. To whom did Cicero write the second letter?
(a) Verres.
(b) His wife.
(c) Pompey.
(d) Atticus.

4. How does Cicero qualify the people endowed with perfect wisdom?
(a) Senators.
(b) Hypothetical.
(c) Common.
(d) Out of touch with reality.

5. Who discovered that Ulysses was faking madness?
(a) The barbarians.
(b) Palamedes.
(c) Antony.
(d) Penelope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Antony's accusations does Cicero find the most serious?

2. What developing trait can offset lost physical strength according to Cato?

3. Whom does Cicero see in Rome according to the twenty-second letter?

4. Whom does Cicero call "brave men"?

5. To whom did Cicero send the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?

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