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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 does Cicero wish philosophy will be to Scipio's son?
(a) Annoying and profitable.
(b) Fruitful and annoying.
(c) Fruitful and rewarding.
(d) Rewarding and profitable.

2. According to Cicero in Attack on an Enemy of Freedom, The Second Philippic against Antony, what did Rome's enemies have in common?
(a) They were all Romans.
(b) They made an enemy of Cicero as well.
(c) They were old men.
(d) They were all senators.

3. Who is modeling his actions after Rome's past enemies?
(a) Marcus.
(b) Antony.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Verres.

4. Who was Hannibal's father?
(a) Verres.
(b) Hamilcar.
(c) Xanthippus.
(d) Marcus Atilius Regulus.

5. What reason could a sick man use to break a promise of payment?
(a) Party one last time.
(b) Leave money to his children.
(c) Pay for a more comfortable bed.
(d) To buy medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cicero believe can make society fall apart?

2. What favor did Cicero acknowledge Antony did for him?

3. In the first section of A Practical Code of Behavior, whom does Cicero praise?

4. What will the law always imperfectly mirror according to Cicero?

5. How does Cicero see the theme of criticizing Antony and justifying himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Cicero, what do goodness and rightness have in common, and who can see it?

2. At the end of Attack on an Enemy of Freedom, what does Cicero say he wants for himself and Rome?

3. What are Antonius' arguments against Cicero, according to Cicero?

4. According to Cicero in section five of A Practical Code of Behavior, what should the invisible man do?

5. What does Cicero say about Antonius' character?

6. What does Cicero argue men should not do in the third section of A Practical Code of Behavior?

7. According to Cicero, how was his consulship compared to Antonius'?

8. What does Cicero think a man's aim should always be?

9. What do the Stoics and the Peripatetics think of the right and the advantage?

10. Whose murder does Antonius accuse Cicero of committing?

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