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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Discussions at Tusculum.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was Cicero worried about, according to the introduction?
(a) His own health.
(b) His mother's health.
(c) The Greek republic.
(d) The Roman republic.

3. Which medieval thinker admired Cicero, according to Grant?
(a) Plutarch.
(b) Aquinas.
(c) Petrarch.
(d) Dante.

4. How does the argument in "Discussions at Tusculum" begin?
(a) With a description of the river.
(b) With Cicero talking to himself.
(c) With Cicero talking to Brutus.
(d) With his friend asking Cicero a question.

5. What or whom does Michael Grant, the author of the introduction, introduce?
(a) Marcus Tullius Cicero.
(b) Greek philosophy.
(c) Himself.
(d) Roman philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Dionysius?

2. What was the result of Cicero's desire to capture others thought in his writing's?

3. Who does Grant say took over power in the Roman Republic during Cicero's writing?

4. In what period did Cicero gain great fame?

5. What did Cicero believe was the most divine thing in humans?

(see the answer key)

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