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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is modeling his actions after Rome's past enemies?
(a) Antony.
(b) Verres.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Marcus.

2. What does Cicero think cannot be done by Antony?
(a) Banish Cicero.
(b) Accuse Cicero of a false crime.
(c) Disparage Cicero in front of the senate.
(d) Disparage Cicero in front of the tribune.

3. What reason does Antony give for visiting Cicero's house?
(a) To court his daughter.
(b) He was friends with his son.
(c) To spy on him.
(d) To receive his tuition.

4. What impact does sharp practice have on the community?
(a) Makes the people want more money.
(b) Bad.
(c) No impact.
(d) Good.

5. Who interprets right as the only good according to Cicero?
(a) Curio.
(b) Panaetius.
(c) Antony.
(d) Pompey.

6. What was the former position of Antony's father-in-law?
(a) Slave.
(b) Senator.
(c) Praetor.
(d) General.

7. Who bore a resemblance to wise men, but were not according to Cicero?
(a) The senators.
(b) The Seven Wise Men.
(c) The Oracles.
(d) Antony's supporters.

8. What will the law always imperfectly mirror according to Cicero?
(a) Justice.
(b) The human condition.
(c) Greed.
(d) Dishonesty.

9. In the second section of A Practical Code of Behavior, what does Cicero argue cannot be weighed against advantage?
(a) Justice.
(b) Ideal right.
(c) Inconvenience.
(d) Law.

10. What fate did Rome's enemies share over the past twenty years?
(a) Death.
(b) Exile.
(c) Political functions.
(d) Imprisonment.

11. Who helped Antony be elected as augur?
(a) Quintus Hortensius.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Curio.
(d) Verres.

12. According to Cicero, whose ideal is "to live consistently with nature"?
(a) Realists.
(b) Senators.
(c) Jurists.
(d) Stoics.

13. In the second section of A Practical Code of Behavior, who can see how goodness and rightness are related?
(a) People with low intelligence.
(b) People with flowed logic.
(c) People with perfect wisdom.
(d) Women.

14. Who was Hannibal's father?
(a) Hamilcar.
(b) Marcus Atilius Regulus.
(c) Xanthippus.
(d) Verres.

15. According to Cicero, toward whom is his work targeted?
(a) Antony's supporters.
(b) Cicero's supporters.
(c) Those who can't see that goodness and rightness are synonymous.
(d) The Senate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Cicero call "brave men"?

2. What do the respected men whom Cicero discusses have in common?

3. What does Cicero argue about those who think that doing wrong is to their advantage?

4. What does one side think of the attitude of the merchant who doesn't tell the other merchants about the food shortage?

5. What did Ulysses do to avoid military service?

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