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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused dissension, according to the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Lucius' speech.
(b) Lucius' influence.
(c) Lucius' letter.
(d) Lucius' bribes.

2. What does Cicero promise to the Roman people?
(a) To convict Verres.
(b) To be corrupt.
(c) To raise taxes.
(d) To be honorable and fair.

3. What is Cicero nervous about in his seventh letter?
(a) The new Triumvirate.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) The war.
(d) The provincial Governorship appointee.

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

5. Whose speech does Cicero go and listen to according to the twenty-first letter?
(a) Caesar's.
(b) Brutus'.
(c) Pompey's.
(d) Tiro's.

6. What consul, in particular, is Cicero happy with according to the twenty-third letter?
(a) Brutus.
(b) Lucius plancus.
(c) Octavian.
(d) Caesar.

7. What is at stake if Lucius refuses to identify himself with the cause of Roman freedom, according to the final letter?
(a) Lucius' money.
(b) Lucius' position.
(c) Lucius' citizenship.
(d) Lucius' life.

8. How many chests of money were left at "some senator's house"?
(a) Eight chests.
(b) Four chests.
(c) Five chests.
(d) Ten chests.

9. Who co-wrote the eighth letter with Cicero?
(a) His brother and their sons.
(b) Pompey.
(c) His wife.
(d) His children.

10. What does Verres do with the money embezzled during his third year as Sicilian praetor?
(a) Put it aside to bribe judges.
(b) Hid it for when he needed to flee.
(c) Gave it to his associates.
(d) Spent it on real estate.

11. What is Cicero expressing concern for in his third letter?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Money.
(c) War.
(d) Justice.

12. According to Cicero in his first point in Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I, how does Cicero see the court as being?
(a) In discredit.
(b) In good moral standing.
(c) In chaos.
(d) In disarray.

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

14. With what are the Roman tribunals branded?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Infamy.
(c) Piety.
(d) Hatred.

15. In what did Verres put his expectation of safety?
(a) Money.
(b) The judges.
(c) His innocence.
(d) Lawyers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What virtue does Cicero hope Marcus Glabrio inherited from his father?

2. What is Cicero's wife's name, as noted in his third letter?

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

4. What is the main topic of the sixteenth letter?

5. Who helped Cicero fend off attempts by Verres to tarnish him?

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