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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many senators have been condemned by the courts since restoring the tribunes?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

3. According to the twenty-first letter, what is Cicero's reaction to the speech which he heard?
(a) It was bad.
(b) It was inconsistent.
(c) It was short.
(d) It was good.

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

5. Where was Cicero going when he wrote the second letter?
(a) To Rome.
(b) To Epirus.
(c) To Cartage.
(d) To Vilnius.

6. Whom does Verres think ill of in Cicero's third argument against Verres?
(a) The Senate.
(b) The judges.
(c) Thieves.
(d) Virtuous men.

7. What did the new consul elect tell Verres when Verres congratulated him for his victory?
(a) "Thank you for your financial support."
(b) "The consul cannot help you."
(c) "You need to flee the country immediately."
(d) "You have been acquitted by this day's comitia."

8. With whom does Cicero say Rome could be at war?
(a) Parthians.
(b) The goths.
(c) Greece.
(d) The barbarians.

9. Where does Caesar invite Cicero in the thirteenth letter?
(a) Pompey.
(b) Milan.
(c) Canosa.
(d) Rome.

10. To whom did Cicero send the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Tiro.
(b) Atticus.
(c) Lucius Munatius Plancus.
(d) Julius Caesar.

11. Who helped Cicero fend off attempts by Verres to tarnish him?
(a) The consul.
(b) The police.
(c) The Senate.
(d) His friends.

12. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?
(a) Praetor.
(b) Part of the triumvirate.
(c) Judge.
(d) Senator.

13. Who wrote the ninth letter?
(a) Pompey.
(b) Cicero.
(c) Tiro.
(d) Cicero's wife.

14. What is Cicero's wife's name, as noted in his third letter?
(a) Terentia.
(b) Era.
(c) Diane.
(d) Aria.

15. Where did Cicero write the fourth letter?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Milan.
(c) Atticus.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Caesar claim to need Cicero?

2. What consul, in particular, is Cicero happy with according to the twenty-third letter?

3. According to Cicero in his eighteenth argument against Verres, what will change during the trial in comparison to the "old mode"?

4. Whose speech does Cicero go and listen to according to the twenty-first letter?

5. What caused dissension, according to the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?

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