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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: On the Orator.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the younger men ask Crassus to tell them in "On the Orator"?
(a) How he became a polished orator.
(b) If they could be good orators.
(c) The nature of oratory.
(d) The nature of art.

2. Why are great orators hard to find, according to Cicero in "On the Orator"?
(a) Many speak well, but lack information.
(b) Stage fright.
(c) Many have information on many arts, but speak poorly.
(d) Few have the mastery of the many distinct arts.

3. What are external goods merely considered to be by Cicero?
(a) Preferables.
(b) Unpreferables.
(c) Necessary to happiness.
(d) Indifferents.

4. Who does Cicero compare Dionysius to?
(a) Plato and Archimedes.
(b) Dante and Plato.
(c) Plato and Plutarch.
(d) Petrach and Archimedes.

5. What type of governmental system does Cicero prefer?
(a) Where no one is taxed.
(b) Where the ruler is morally good.
(c) Where men elect their ruler.
(d) Where the ruler gives to his community.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Cicero believe the result would be if happiness was only achieved by certain goods?

2. According to the Stoics, what was the faculty that was unique to humans?

3. What was oratory a part of in the ancient world, according to "On the Orator"?

4. What were the followers of Aristotle called?

5. What do Rufus and Cotta ask Antonius and Crassus in "On the Orator"?

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