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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 must the ruler maintain, according to Cicero?
(a) Balance between powers.
(b) Order.
(c) Justice.
(d) Equality before law.

2. According to "On the Orator," who thought about the skill of oratory and rhetoric?
(a) Greek leaders.
(b) Roman Catholics.
(c) Greek and Roman leaders.
(d) Great Greek and Roman thinkers.

3. According to "Discussions at Tusculum," what did all Greek schools of philosophy agree on?
(a) That good lives require posessions.
(b) That good lives cannot exist.
(c) That good lives require being morally good.
(d) That good lives require friends.

4. Why is friendship more potent that kinship, according to Laelius ?
(a) Kinship is forced.
(b) Kinship is unnatural.
(c) Friendship is natural.
(d) Kinship does not imply a non-physical bond.

5. What does Cicero question about virtues in "Discussions at Tusculum"?
(a) If they are a tangible or intangible component.
(b) Whether they can make for a supremely happy life.
(c) Whether or not they even exist.
(d) If they are necessary to people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Cicero influence, according to Grant?

2. Who does Laelius argue needs friends the most?

3. According to Cicero, how was the Stoics view counter-intuitive?

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

5. Who takes the dictatorial control in "Laelius: On Friendship"?

(see the answer key)

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