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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. What is Cicero's wife's name, as noted in his third letter?
(a) Terentia.
(b) Aria.
(c) Era.
(d) Diane.
2. What caused dissension, according to the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Lucius' influence.
(b) Lucius' speech.
(c) Lucius' bribes.
(d) Lucius' letter.
3. What does Cicero promise to the Roman people?
(a) To be corrupt.
(b) To convict Verres.
(c) To raise taxes.
(d) To be honorable and fair.
4. Who wrote the ninth letter?
(a) Pompey.
(b) Cicero's wife.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Tiro.
5. How much money did Verres embezzled?
(a) 400,000 sesterces.
(b) 300,000 sesterces.
(c) 400,000,000 sesterces.
(d) 10,000 sesterces.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who restored the tribunes?
2. In the fifteenth letter, how does Cicero qualify the state of the country?
3. According to Cicero in his sixth argument against Verres, what did Verres try to do after the consular comitia?
4. How many chests of money were left at "some senator's house"?
5. Where does Caesar invite Cicero in the thirteenth letter?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Hortensius tell Verres after his election to consul?
2. What did Cicero tell Pompey in the first letter of Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence?
3. What happened in Sicily under Verres' rule?
4. According to Cicero in his second argument, what is the relationship like between Cicero and Verres prior to the trial?
5. According to Cicero in his ninth argument, who tried to interfere with the trial and how?
6. Who is Cicero's contestant in the court in his tenth argument?
7. According to Cicero, what does Verres not use to oppose him?
8. In the twelfth letter, what does Cicero say about the death of Caesar?
9. What is Cicero writing about in the seventh letter?
10. What did Cicero learn from trustworthy sources concerning his candidacy to aedile, according to his eighth argument?
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