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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should happen to people who steal?
(a) They should be forgiven.
(b) They should be put to death.
(c) They should experience the same crime.
(d) They should be cut from society.

2. Which of Antony's accusations does Cicero find the most serious?
(a) The Roman Senate is corrupt.
(b) Antony started the feud between them.
(c) The people of Rome hate Cicero.
(d) Cicero started the feud between them.

3. According to Cicero in Attack on an Enemy of Freedom, The Second Philippic against Antony, what did Rome's enemies have in common?
(a) They were old men.
(b) They were all senators.
(c) They made an enemy of Cicero as well.
(d) They were all Romans.

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

5. What level does the duty of becoming wiser and better occupy, according to Cicero's arguments?
(a) First.
(b) High.
(c) Middle.
(d) Low.

6. According to Cicero, what is the most serious crime a man can commit?
(a) To kill a woman.
(b) To kill a friend.
(c) To kill an enemy.
(d) To kill a tyrant.

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

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

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

10. Whom does Cicero believe became the conqueror's chief gangster?
(a) Verres.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Curio.
(d) Antony.

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

12. What do the respected men whom Cicero discusses have in common?
(a) They did wrong.
(b) They were all senators.
(c) They were all merchants.
(d) They did right.

13. How does the dishonest man hide his crimes in section five?
(a) By paying the judges.
(b) With a scepter.
(c) By stealing at night.
(d) With a ring.

14. What differentiated Antony from Cicero's past enemies?
(a) Antony took the initiative against Cicero instead of Cicero going after Antony.
(b) Cicero took the initiative against Antony instead of Antony going after Cicero.
(c) Cicero and Antony physically fought.
(d) Cicero was younger than Antony.

15. What does Cicero wish philosophy will be to Scipio's son?
(a) Fruitful and annoying.
(b) Annoying and profitable.
(c) Rewarding and profitable.
(d) Fruitful and rewarding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would it be an advantage for a merchant to arrive early at a market during a food shortage?

2. Who helped Antony be elected as augur?

3. According to Cicero, who is the best tragic poet?

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

5. What would explain Antony trying to put Cicero at odds with the Senate?

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