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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, A Practical Code of Behavior, On Duties, III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of society does Cicero analyze in section seven?
(a) The law.
(b) Commerce.
(c) The individual.
(d) Social life.

2. Who wrote the ninth letter?
(a) Pompey.
(b) Cicero's wife.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Tiro.

3. Who bore a resemblance to wise men, but were not according to Cicero?
(a) The senators.
(b) Antony's supporters.
(c) The Seven Wise Men.
(d) The Oracles.

4. According to Cicero in Attack on an Enemy of Freedom, The Second Philippic against Antony, what did Rome's enemies have in common?
(a) They were all Romans.
(b) They were all senators.
(c) They made an enemy of Cicero as well.
(d) They were old men.

5. What philosophy does Panaetius follow?
(a) Elitist.
(b) Peripatetic.
(c) Patetic.
(d) Stoics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the second section of A Practical Code of Behavior, what does Cicero argue cannot be weighed against advantage?

2. What is Cicero nervous about in his seventh letter?

3. What reason does Antony give for visiting Cicero's house?

4. What are Cicero feelings about Pompey's decision to go against Caesar?

5. Who is modeling his actions after Rome's past enemies?

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