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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 much money did Verres embezzled?
(a) 300,000 sesterces.
(b) 400,000 sesterces.
(c) 400,000,000 sesterces.
(d) 10,000 sesterces.

2. What are the moral standards of Publius Sulpicius, the judge?
(a) Corrupted.
(b) Open to bribes.
(c) Unscrupulous.
(d) Solemn and upright.

3. Who restored the tribunes?
(a) Cnaeus Tremellius.
(b) Marcus Atilius.
(c) Quintus Catulus.
(d) Cnaeus Pompeius.

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

5. In the fifteenth letter, how does Cicero qualify the state of the country?
(a) Good.
(b) In trouble.
(c) In revolt.
(d) In chaos.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men came to Cicero's house according to the eighteenth letter?

2. What does Verres do with the money embezzled during his third year as Sicilian praetor?

3. How long did Cicero spend investigating Verres in Sicily?

4. Where did Cicero write the fourth letter?

5. According to Cicero in his fourth argument, what position did Verres occupy when he embezzled public money and abandoned his province?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What news does Cicero send Atticus in the sixteenth letter?

9. In Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I, how does Cicero characterize Verres in the first point he makes to the judges?

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

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