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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What will Cicero be after Hortensius is consul?
(a) A praetor.
(b) In exile.
(c) Sicily's consul.
(d) An aedile.
2. What did Cicero propose to the recipient of the first letter?
(a) To vote for him.
(b) To be his political ally.
(c) To be a senator.
(d) To pay him for counsel.
3. Whose speech does Cicero go and listen to according to the twenty-first letter?
(a) Brutus'.
(b) Caesar's.
(c) Pompey's.
(d) Tiro's.
4. Where does Caesar invite Cicero in the thirteenth letter?
(a) Rome.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Canosa.
(d) Milan.
5. Where did Cicero write the fourth letter?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Milan.
(c) Atticus.
(d) Rome.
6. Who wrote the ninth letter?
(a) Cicero.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Cicero's wife.
(d) Tiro.
7. What is the main topic of the sixteenth letter?
(a) Cicero's daughter's birth.
(b) Cicero's daughter's election.
(c) Cicero's daughter's wedding.
(d) Cicero's daughter's death.
8. In the seventeenth letter, what is Cicero's opinion of Brutus?
(a) He is a fool.
(b) He is short.
(c) He is a great man.
(d) He is ignorant.
9. With what are the Roman tribunals branded?
(a) Infamy.
(b) Piety.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Loyalty.
10. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?
(a) Judge.
(b) Senator.
(c) Part of the triumvirate.
(d) Praetor.
11. According to Cicero in his fourth argument, what position did Verres occupy when he embezzled public money and abandoned his province?
(a) Proquaestor.
(b) Quaestor.
(c) Praetor.
(d) Consul.
12. In the twentieth letter, Cicero is glad of __________.
(a) Tiro's remission.
(b) His wife's visit.
(c) Caesar's rise to power.
(d) Caesar's death.
13. Who is the recipient of the fifteenth letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Pompey.
(b) Tullia.
(c) Verres.
(d) Marcus Terentius Varro.
14. In the fourteenth letter, Cicero claims that ___________ delivered Atticus' previous letter.
(a) Pompey.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Tiro.
(d) Tullia.
15. What is the personal connection between Verres and Metellus?
(a) Step brother.
(b) Childhood friend.
(c) Cousin.
(d) None.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many chests of money were left at "some senator's house"?
2. What danger does Cicero foresee despite preparing his case against Verres so well?
3. What does Cicero promise to the Roman people?
4. According to Cicero in his eighteenth argument against Verres, what will change during the trial in comparison to the "old mode"?
5. What qualifies Quintus Catulus, according to Cicero?
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