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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 the personal connection between Verres and Metellus?

2. Where did Cicero write the fourth letter?

3. Who was elected consul during the election just prior to the start of the trial?

4. To whom did Cicero send the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?

5. According to Cicero in his sixth argument against Verres, what did Verres try to do after the consular comitia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the fourth letter, written to Atticus, Cicero examines the treachery of Roman leadership. He wanted to become part of an alliance, but he resisted because he hated to participate in "deification." Analyze the treachery of Roman leadership and how some leaders, such as Caesar and Pompey, were deified. Provide support from the text to support your statements.

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 addresses Antonius' claim that Antonius caused the Civil War. Analyze how Antonius accelerated the decline of a friendship between Caesar and Pompeius and how it may have resulted in the Civil War. Provide examples from the book to support your statements.

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