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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, In Catilinam III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Cicero say that Catiline should have been killed by the Roman consul?
(a) Two days ago.
(b) A long time ago.
(c) A short time ago.
(d) One day ago.

2. According to what Cicero told Hortensius, the opposing counsel, in Chapter 2, what did Hortensius owe Verres?
(a) His life.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Money.
(d) Everything.

3. Since Cicero could not likely speak against anyone else in the senate the way he had spoken of Catiline, whose respect did Catiline lose?
(a) His followers.
(b) The people of other regions.
(c) The senate.
(d) The Roman citizens.

4. Whom did Catiline sit with while listening to Cicero's first speech against him?
(a) His counsel.
(b) No one.
(c) A group of senators.
(d) Another senator.

5. Which one of the following was assumed to be elected to the consulship and help Verres?
(a) Nasica.
(b) Hortensius.
(c) Sisenna.
(d) Metellus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which type of reward did Cicero request after preventing a civil war in Chapter 6?

2. Where did Verres falsely report that he had used his own money to build a trireme?

3. In which year did Catiline's coup take place?

4. Mithridates, the enemy of Rome, was from ______________.

5. What did Cicero say that the Roman people were in danger of losing from the war with Mithridates?

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