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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cicero consider and debate in section nine?
(a) If stealing is always necessary.
(b) If honesty is always necessary.
(c) If lying is always necessary.
(d) If rightness is always necessary.

2. Cicero states that men shouldn't covet __________.
(a) Money.
(b) Power.
(c) Another's wife.
(d) One another's goods.

3. In what spirit does Antony take a step to attack Cicero verbally?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Reprisal.
(c) Love.
(d) Hate.

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

5. What does Cicero argue can be broken in section nine?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Promises.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Treaties.

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

7. Cicero believed that __________ is a united body.
(a) The military.
(b) Society.
(c) Family.
(d) The judges.

8. What did Ulysses do to avoid military service?
(a) Fled the country.
(b) Stopped the war.
(c) Simulated madness.
(d) Married.

9. What definition does Cicero give of a sharp practice?
(a) Making money honestly.
(b) Making money with a partner.
(c) Making money selling food.
(d) Making money based on fraud.

10. The invisible man should listen to ___________.
(a) The oracle.
(b) His true good.
(c) The law.
(d) His friends.

11. What would have benefited Antony had he visited Cicero's home?
(a) His reputation and morals.
(b) His physical strength.
(c) His honesty.
(d) His orator's skills.

12. According to certain people, what can excuse wrong doing?
(a) Honesty about it.
(b) A high prize.
(c) Money.
(d) A low prize.

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) Women.
(c) People with flowed logic.
(d) People with perfect wisdom.

14. How does Cicero qualify the people endowed with perfect wisdom?
(a) Out of touch with reality.
(b) Senators.
(c) Common.
(d) Hypothetical.

15. Who would have prevented Antony from going to Cicero's home, according to Cicero?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Verres.
(c) Gaius Scribonius Curio.
(d) Cicero himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will the law always imperfectly mirror according to Cicero?

2. How does Cicero see the theme of criticizing Antony and justifying himself?

3. What should happen to people who steal?

4. What does Cicero think cannot be done by Antony?

5. How does Cicero characterize robbery?

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