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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom did Cicero send the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Atticus.
(b) Lucius Munatius Plancus.
(c) Tiro.
(d) Julius Caesar.

2. In the seventeenth letter, what is Cicero's opinion of Brutus?
(a) He is ignorant.
(b) He is a fool.
(c) He is a great man.
(d) He is short.

3. Who is the recipient of the fifteenth letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Marcus Terentius Varro.
(b) Verres.
(c) Pompey.
(d) Tullia.

4. According to Cicero in his eleventh argument against Verres, who is his adversary in the courtroom?
(a) Verres.
(b) The judges.
(c) Hortensius.
(d) The praetor.

5. What does Verres do with the money embezzled during his third year as Sicilian praetor?
(a) Put it aside to bribe judges.
(b) Hid it for when he needed to flee.
(c) Spent it on real estate.
(d) Gave it to his associates.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cicero in his sixth argument against Verres, what did Verres try to do after the consular comitia?

2. What is the personal connection between Verres and Metellus?

3. What are the moral standards of Publius Sulpicius, the judge?

4. Where was Cicero going when he wrote the second letter?

5. How many senators have been condemned by the courts since restoring the tribunes?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Cicero, what does Verres not use to oppose him?

2. What event does Cicero relate to Atticus in letters ten and eleven?

3. What does Cicero complain about in the fourth letter?

4. In the twelfth letter, what does Cicero say about the death of Caesar?

5. Who is Cicero's contestant in the court in his tenth argument?

6. Why didn't Verres' plan to bribe the judge succeed?

7. What does the ninth argument tell us about Cicero's opinion of Marcus Metellus?

8. What did Hortensius tell Verres after his election to consul?

9. According to Cicero in his second argument, what is the relationship like between Cicero and Verres prior to the trial?

10. Who wrote the eighth letter and to whom was it written?

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