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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was elected consul during the election just prior to the start of the trial?
(a) Verres' friend, Caetus.
(b) Verres' lawyer, Hortensius.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Julius Caesar.

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

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

4. Whom is Cicero blaming for his wife's sorrow in his third letter?
(a) Himself.
(b) Caesar.
(c) The war.
(d) His children.

5. Who is the recipient of the fifteenth letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Marcus Terentius Varro.
(b) Tullia.
(c) Pompey.
(d) Verres.

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

7. According to Cicero in his eighth argument against Verres, what responsibilities fell on Marcus Metellus?
(a) Treason trials.
(b) Petty theft trials.
(c) Extortion trials.
(d) Murder trials.

8. What will stop Cicero's fight against wicked men?
(a) His death.
(b) His wedding.
(c) A large amount of money.
(d) His retirement.

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

10. In the twentieth letter, Cicero is glad of __________.
(a) Tiro's remission.
(b) Caesar's rise to power.
(c) His wife's visit.
(d) Caesar's death.

11. Why is Cicero trying to persuade Tiro from traveling?
(a) Tiro is a fugitive.
(b) War is raging.
(c) Tiro is old.
(d) Tiro is sick.

12. 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.

13. In the fourteenth letter, Cicero claims that ___________ delivered Atticus' previous letter.
(a) Tiro.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Tullia.

14. 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 ignored.
(b) The witnesses will be anonymous.
(c) Cicero will talk and then produce the witnesses.
(d) The witnesses will be called as the counts are brought forward.

15. How does Cicero feel about Gaius' chance for victory against his rival?
(a) He is optimistic.
(b) He is in denial.
(c) He is realistic.
(d) He is pessimistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cicero in his first point in Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I, how does Cicero see the court as being?

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

3. Who is Sicily's praetor?

4. To whom did Cicero send the third letter?

5. What is the personal connection between Verres and Metellus?

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