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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 are goodness and right?
(a) Never used together.
(b) Antonymous.
(c) Synonymous.
(d) Homonyms.

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

3. What is Cicero nervous about in his seventh letter?
(a) The provincial Governorship appointee.
(b) The new Triumvirate.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) The war.

4. Whose speech does Cicero go and listen to according to the twenty-first letter?
(a) Tiro's.
(b) Brutus'.
(c) Caesar's.
(d) Pompey's.

5. According to Cicero, whose ideal is "to live consistently with nature"?
(a) Jurists.
(b) Realists.
(c) Stoics.
(d) Senators.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fourteenth letter, Cicero claims that ___________ delivered Atticus' previous letter.

2. To whom did Cicero send the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?

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

4. In the first section of A Practical Code of Behavior, whom does Cicero praise?

5. What is Cicero's wife's name, as noted in his third letter?

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