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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Attack on an Enemy of Freedom, The Second Philippic against Antony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Antony's accusations does Cicero find the most serious?
(a) Antony started the feud between them.
(b) The people of Rome hate Cicero.
(c) Cicero started the feud between them.
(d) The Roman Senate is corrupt.

2. Who rescued the Senate from annihilation according to Cicero?
(a) Sicca.
(b) Antony.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Himself.

3. Who would have prevented Antony from going to Cicero's home, according to Cicero?
(a) Cicero himself.
(b) Gaius Scribonius Curio.
(c) Verres.
(d) Julius Caesar.

4. What happened to Roman citizens under Verres' rule in Sicily?
(a) They were rewarded with many riches.
(b) They were forcibly enrolled in the military.
(c) They were put to death like slaves.
(d) They were sent to Egypt.

5. Whom does Verres think ill of in Cicero's third argument against Verres?
(a) The Senate.
(b) Virtuous men.
(c) The judges.
(d) Thieves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What consul, in particular, is Cicero happy with according to the twenty-third letter?

2. What does Cicero state cannot happen in a court of law?

3. In Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence, to whom did Cicero write the first letter?

4. What are goodness and right?

5. According to Cicero in his first point in Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I, how does Cicero see the court as being?

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