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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 the personal connection between Verres and Metellus?
(a) None.
(b) Childhood friend.
(c) Step brother.
(d) Cousin.

2. According to Cicero in his first point in Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I, how does Cicero see the court as being?
(a) In chaos.
(b) In good moral standing.
(c) In disarray.
(d) In discredit.

3. Who was elected consul during the election just prior to the start of the trial?
(a) Cicero.
(b) Verres' friend, Caetus.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Verres' lawyer, Hortensius.

4. Why does Caesar claim to need Cicero?
(a) For Pompey's sake.
(b) For Cicero's sake.
(c) For the empire's sake.
(d) For Caesar's sake.

5. What happened to Roman citizens under Verres' rule in Sicily?
(a) They were put to death like slaves.
(b) They were forcibly enrolled in the military.
(c) They were rewarded with many riches.
(d) They were sent to Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?

2. What caused dissension, according to the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?

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

4. With what are the Roman tribunals branded?

5. Whom is Cicero blaming for his wife's sorrow in his third letter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Cicero tell Caesar in the twelfth letter?

3. What are the names of Cicero's wife and children?

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

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

6. According to Cicero, what is the first thing Verres did when he came back from Sicily?

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

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

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

10. What did Cicero learn from trustworthy sources concerning his candidacy to aedile, according to his eighth argument?

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