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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cicero's wife's name, as noted in his third letter?

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

3. What happened to Roman citizens under Verres' rule in Sicily?

4. Who requested that Cicero take the case against Verres?

5. What does Gaius not do according to Cicero in the twenty-third letter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Cicero learn from trustworthy sources concerning his candidacy to aedile, according to his eighth argument?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cicero examines the fallacy of pleasure and maintains that receiving pleasure involves wrongdoing. Cicero maintains that getting pleasure can never be to one's advantage if it is still wrong. Analyze his main argument of the book, that nothing against the right can benefit someone. Students may use the text and secondary sources to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 2

Cicero considers objections made in hard moral cases, in business, and in law. Analyze the cases of evil as being unnatural and inhuman as discussed by Cicero. Choose one incident to examine and debate the accuracy of his conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Cicero discusses the Stoic ideal and how important it is to live consistently with nature and moral rightness by doing what nature demands. Analyze what nature demands and how doing right always brings about good. Provide examples from the book to support your discussion.

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