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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. How long did Cicero spend investigating Verres in Sicily?
(a) 110 days.
(b) 50 days.
(c) 75 days.
(d) 40 days.

2. What will Cicero be after Hortensius is consul?
(a) In exile.
(b) Sicily's consul.
(c) A praetor.
(d) An aedile.

3. Who helped Cicero fend off attempts by Verres to tarnish him?
(a) The police.
(b) The Senate.
(c) The consul.
(d) His friends.

4. Marcus Atilius was convicted of ___________.
(a) Embezzlement.
(b) Extortion.
(c) Murder.
(d) Treason.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Verres think ill of in Cicero's third argument against Verres?

2. Who requested that Cicero take the case against Verres?

3. What is Cicero's wife's name, as noted in his third letter?

4. According to the twenty-first letter, what is Cicero's reaction to the speech which he heard?

5. Where did Cicero write the fourth letter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Cicero professes himself to be an enemy of what men?

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

4. How does Cicero's opinion of Brutus change between the sixteenth and twenty-first letter?

5. According to Cicero in his ninth argument, who tried to interfere with the trial and how?

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

7. To whom did Cicero send the last letter of Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence and why?

8. What is Cicero writing about in the seventh letter?

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

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

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