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

2. According to Cicero in his fourth argument, what position did Verres occupy when he embezzled public money and abandoned his province?
(a) Praetor.
(b) Consul.
(c) Proquaestor.
(d) Quaestor.

3. What does Gaius not do according to Cicero in the twenty-third letter?
(a) Invite Cicero to his oath of office.
(b) Invite Cicero to a banquet.
(c) Invite Cicero to his house.
(d) Invite Cicero to a hunting trip.

4. Who wrote the ninth letter?
(a) Pompey.
(b) Tiro.
(c) Cicero's wife.
(d) Cicero.

5. Whom does Verres think ill of in Cicero's third argument against Verres?
(a) The judges.
(b) Thieves.
(c) Virtuous men.
(d) The Senate.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fifteenth letter, how does Cicero qualify the state of the country?

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

3. According to Cicero in his eighteenth argument against Verres, what will change during the trial in comparison to the "old mode"?

4. According to Cicero in his first point in Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I, how does Cicero see the court as being?

5. What virtue does Cicero hope Marcus Glabrio inherited from his father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What concern does Cicero express in his second letter?

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

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

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

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