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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What are goodness and right?
(a) Never used together.
(b) Antonymous.
(c) Synonymous.
(d) Homonyms.
2. What level does the duty of becoming wiser and better occupy, according to Cicero's arguments?
(a) Middle.
(b) High.
(c) First.
(d) Low.
3. In what spirit does Antony take a step to attack Cicero verbally?
(a) Reprisal.
(b) Love.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Hate.
4. Who nominated Cicero for the position of augur?
(a) Pompey and Quintus Hortensius.
(b) Gaius Scribonius Curio.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Verres.
5. What argument did Anthony use to justify going after Cicero?
(a) Cicero spoke against Antony at a friend's lawsuit.
(b) Cicero beat Antony in an election.
(c) Cicero stole from Antony.
(d) Cicero married Antony's love interest.
6. In the first section of A Practical Code of Behavior, whom does Cicero praise?
(a) Curio.
(b) Verres.
(c) Scipio.
(d) Antony.
7. Who rescued the Senate from annihilation according to Cicero?
(a) Himself.
(b) Sicca.
(c) Antony.
(d) Caesar.
8. What do the respected men whom Cicero discusses have in common?
(a) They did wrong.
(b) They were all merchants.
(c) They did right.
(d) They were all senators.
9. Whom does Cicero believe became the conqueror's chief gangster?
(a) Pompey.
(b) Verres.
(c) Antony.
(d) Curio.
10. What does one side think of the attitude of the merchant who doesn't tell the other merchants about the food shortage?
(a) Honest.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Deceiving.
11. How does Cicero qualify the people endowed with perfect wisdom?
(a) Out of touch with reality.
(b) Common.
(c) Hypothetical.
(d) Senators.
12. What would have benefited Antony had he visited Cicero's home?
(a) His physical strength.
(b) His honesty.
(c) His reputation and morals.
(d) His orator's skills.
13. What would make it right for an honest man to steal from a tyrant to save his life according to Cicero?
(a) Common interest.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Human nature.
(d) Common sense.
14. What would explain Antony trying to put Cicero at odds with the Senate?
(a) He wants to ban Cicero from Rome.
(b) He wants to compete with Cicero as a speaker.
(c) He wants to take Cicero's place in the Senate.
(d) He wants to disband the Senate.
15. How does the dishonest man hide his crimes in section five?
(a) By stealing at night.
(b) By paying the judges.
(c) With a ring.
(d) With a scepter.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Cicero, who is the best tragic poet?
2. What happened to Curio's friend after Antony's election as augur?
3. How does Cicero say a man can balance advantages and rightness?
4. According to certain people, what can excuse wrong doing?
5. What does Caesar claim was always advantageous according to Cicero?
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