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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. Whose speech does Cicero go and listen to according to the twenty-first letter?
(a) Brutus'.
(b) Caesar's.
(c) Tiro's.
(d) Pompey's.

2. Where was Cicero going when he wrote the second letter?
(a) To Vilnius.
(b) To Rome.
(c) To Cartage.
(d) To Epirus.

3. How long did Cicero spend investigating Verres in Sicily?
(a) 75 days.
(b) 110 days.
(c) 40 days.
(d) 50 days.

4. Where did Cicero write the fourth letter?
(a) Atticus.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Rome.
(d) Milan.

5. What is Cicero nervous about in his seventh letter?
(a) The war.
(b) The new Triumvirate.
(c) The provincial Governorship appointee.
(d) Julius Caesar.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did Cicero write the second letter?

2. Whom does Cicero see in Rome according to the twenty-second letter?

3. Marcus Atilius was convicted of ___________.

4. In the eighteenth letter, who came to Cicero's house?

5. In the seventeenth letter, what is Cicero's opinion of Brutus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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