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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cicero promise to the Roman people?
(a) To be corrupt.
(b) To be honorable and fair.
(c) To raise taxes.
(d) To convict Verres.

2. How much money did Verres embezzled?
(a) 400,000,000 sesterces.
(b) 10,000 sesterces.
(c) 400,000 sesterces.
(d) 300,000 sesterces.

3. Who restored the tribunes?
(a) Quintus Catulus.
(b) Cnaeus Tremellius.
(c) Marcus Atilius.
(d) Cnaeus Pompeius.

4. What virtue does Cicero hope Marcus Glabrio inherited from his father?
(a) Resisting audacious men.
(b) Financial planning.
(c) Staying sober.
(d) Physical strength.

5. Who hates Verres more than the Roman people in the fifteenth argument?
(a) Hortensius.
(b) The judges.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Cnaeus Tremellius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Verres think ill of in Cicero's third argument against Verres?

2. What will stop Cicero's fight against wicked men?

3. According to Cicero in his eighth argument against Verres, what responsibilities fell on Marcus Metellus?

4. What does Verres do with the money embezzled during his third year as Sicilian praetor?

5. What is the personal connection between Verres and Metellus?

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