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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What impact does sharp practice have on the community?
(a) Makes the people want more money.
(b) Good.
(c) Bad.
(d) No impact.
2. According to certain people, what can excuse wrong doing?
(a) A high prize.
(b) Money.
(c) Honesty about it.
(d) A low prize.
3. Cicero argues that ___________ is unnatural.
(a) Doing wrong.
(b) Lying.
(c) Doing right.
(d) Stealing.
4. What does one side think of the attitude of the merchant who doesn't tell the other merchants about the food shortage?
(a) Truthful.
(b) Honest.
(c) Ridiculous.
(d) Deceiving.
5. How does Cicero say a man can balance advantages and rightness?
(a) By asking Cicero.
(b) By always doing the right thing.
(c) By going to the oracle.
(d) By always considering his advantages first.
6. Who is modeling his actions after Rome's past enemies?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Verres.
(c) Antony.
(d) Marcus.
7. According to Cicero, what would be the wrong thing for a merchant to do if there was knowledge of a food shortage?
(a) Leave the market.
(b) Increase his prices.
(c) Lower his prices.
(d) Give away food.
8. Cicero states that men shouldn't covet __________.
(a) One another's goods.
(b) Another's wife.
(c) Power.
(d) Money.
9. According to Cicero, toward whom is his work targeted?
(a) The Senate.
(b) Antony's supporters.
(c) Those who can't see that goodness and rightness are synonymous.
(d) Cicero's supporters.
10. Who helped Antony be elected as augur?
(a) Curio.
(b) Quintus Hortensius.
(c) Verres.
(d) Pompey.
11. Who would have prevented Antony from going to Cicero's home, according to Cicero?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Gaius Scribonius Curio.
(c) Verres.
(d) Cicero himself.
12. How does the dishonest man hide his crimes in section five?
(a) With a scepter.
(b) By stealing at night.
(c) With a ring.
(d) By paying the judges.
13. How does Cicero characterize robbery?
(a) Natural.
(b) Unnatural.
(c) Human like.
(d) Normal.
14. The invisible man should listen to ___________.
(a) The oracle.
(b) His true good.
(c) The law.
(d) His friends.
15. What did Anthony claim to have done during the election of the augurship?
(a) To not have participated.
(b) To have bought votes.
(c) To have retired in Cicero's favor.
(d) To have won the election.
Short Answer Questions
1. What would make it right for an honest man to steal from a tyrant to save his life according to Cicero?
2. What part of society does Cicero analyze in section seven?
3. What was Publius Clodius' main quality?
4. According to Cicero, what is the most serious crime a man can commit?
5. In the second section of A Practical Code of Behavior, who can see how goodness and rightness are related?
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