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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Laelius: On Friendship.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the third and fourth principles concerned with, in "On Duties"?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Expediency.
(c) Dictators.
(d) Love.

2. What are external 'bads' considered to be, according to Cicero?
(a) Preferables.
(b) Indifferents.
(c) Necessary to happiness.
(d) Unpreferables.

3. According to Laelius, what two things should be avoided in friendship?
(a) Hypocrisy and pretense.
(b) Condemnation and pretense.
(c) Insult and pretense.
(d) Hypocrisy and insult.

4. Who did Cicero influence, according to Grant?
(a) The children of the time.
(b) The Renaissance art.
(c) The modern philosphers.
(d) The Italian church.

5. According to the introduction, what did Cicero take refuge in after a divorce, fights with friends, and his daughter's death?
(a) Writing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Observing nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "On Duties," which book is only reproduced in this particular selection of readings?

2. According to Cicero, how does he view tyrannies?

3. According to the introduction, who did Cicero criticize?

4. According to Cicero, what will inspire hatred in a ruler's subjects?

5. How many miles was the setting of "Discussions at Tusculum" from Cicero's home?

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