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

2. With whom does Cicero say Rome could be at war?
(a) The barbarians.
(b) The goths.
(c) Parthians.
(d) Greece.

3. According to Cicero in his eighteenth argument against Verres, what will change during the trial in comparison to the "old mode"?
(a) Cicero will talk and then produce the witnesses.
(b) The witnesses will be called as the counts are brought forward.
(c) The witnesses will be anonymous.
(d) The witnesses will be ignored.

4. How many chests of money were left at "some senator's house"?
(a) Five chests.
(b) Eight chests.
(c) Four chests.
(d) Ten chests.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cicero in his eighth argument against Verres, what responsibilities fell on Marcus Metellus?

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

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

4. In what did Verres put his expectation of safety?

5. Who restored the tribunes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What did Cicero tell Pompey in the first letter of Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence?

9. What happened in Sicily under Verres' rule?

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

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