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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. Why is Cicero trying to persuade Tiro from traveling?

2. How many senators have been condemned by the courts since restoring the tribunes?

3. What does Verres do with the money embezzled during his third year as Sicilian praetor?

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

5. What is at stake if Lucius refuses to identify himself with the cause of Roman freedom, according to the final letter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Cicero writing about in the seventh letter?

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

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

5. How does Cicero's opinion of Brutus change between the sixteenth and twenty-first letter?

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

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

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

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

10. What happened in Sicily under Verres' rule?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cato the Elder emphasizes respect as the crowning glory of aging. Examine Cicero's discussion of how the foundation needs to be laid early in life. Use examples from the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Antonius gives a speech to blame Cicero for the problems in Rome, such as Clodius' murder, the Civil War, and Caesar's assassination. Analyze Cicero's responses to the accusations made against him and discuss whether his counter arguments are valid. Give examples from the text to support your discussion.

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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