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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. Why is Cicero trying to persuade Tiro from traveling?
(a) Tiro is a fugitive.
(b) War is raging.
(c) Tiro is sick.
(d) Tiro is old.

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

3. How does Cicero feel about Gaius' chance for victory against his rival?
(a) He is in denial.
(b) He is optimistic.
(c) He is realistic.
(d) He is pessimistic.

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

5. In the eighteenth letter, who came to Cicero's house?
(a) Atticus.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Brutus.
(d) Tiro.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose speech does Cicero go and listen to according to the twenty-first letter?

2. Where did Cicero write the fourth letter?

3. Who wrote the ninth letter?

4. Who co-wrote the eighth letter with Cicero?

5. With what are the Roman tribunals branded?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What event does Cicero relate to Atticus in letters ten and eleven?

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

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

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

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