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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom did Cicero send the third letter?
(a) Pompey.
(b) His wife.
(c) Verres.
(d) Caesar.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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' citizenship.
(c) Lucius' money.
(d) Lucius' life.

12. 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.

13. What danger does Cicero foresee despite preparing his case against Verres so well?
(a) Verres will be convicted.
(b) Verres will flee.
(c) Verres will seek revenge.
(d) Verres will be acquitted.

14. How much money did Verres embezzled?
(a) 400,000,000 sesterces.
(b) 10,000 sesterces.
(c) 300,000 sesterces.
(d) 400,000 sesterces.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What qualifies Quintus Catulus, according to Cicero?

3. What does Cicero state cannot happen in a court of law?

4. Who is Sicily's praetor?

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

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