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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Cicero in his sixth argument against Verres, what did Verres try to do after the consular comitia?
(a) Flee.
(b) Choose a new lawyer.
(c) Bribe judges.
(d) Plead guilty.

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

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

4. In the seventeenth letter, what is Cicero's opinion of Brutus?
(a) He is ignorant.
(b) He is a great man.
(c) He is a fool.
(d) He is short.

5. What did Cicero propose to the recipient of the first letter?
(a) To be his political ally.
(b) To vote for him.
(c) To be a senator.
(d) To pay him for counsel.

6. According to Cicero in his eleventh argument against Verres, who is his adversary in the courtroom?
(a) The judges.
(b) Hortensius.
(c) The praetor.
(d) Verres.

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

8. What will Cicero be after Hortensius is consul?
(a) In exile.
(b) An aedile.
(c) A praetor.
(d) Sicily's consul.

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

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

11. To whom did Cicero write the second letter?
(a) His wife.
(b) Verres.
(c) Atticus.
(d) Pompey.

12. Who hates Verres more than the Roman people in the fifteenth argument?
(a) Cnaeus Tremellius.
(b) Hortensius.
(c) Cicero.
(d) The judges.

13. In the eighteenth letter, who came to Cicero's house?
(a) Brutus.
(b) Tiro.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Atticus.

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

15. What defeated Verres' imprudence in selecting the judges to attempt to bribe?
(a) Cicero's diligence.
(b) Cicero's bribes.
(c) Cicero's spies.
(d) Cicero's honesty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fifteenth letter, how does Cicero qualify the state of the country?

2. According to Cicero in his fourth argument, what position did Verres occupy when he embezzled public money and abandoned his province?

3. How many senators have been condemned by the courts since restoring the tribunes?

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

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

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