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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to certain people, what can excuse wrong doing?
(a) Money.
(b) A high prize.
(c) A low prize.
(d) Honesty about it.

2. Who nominated Cicero for the position of augur?
(a) Verres.
(b) Gaius Scribonius Curio.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Pompey and Quintus Hortensius.

3. What does Cicero consider and debate in section nine?
(a) If lying is always necessary.
(b) If stealing is always necessary.
(c) If rightness is always necessary.
(d) If honesty is always necessary.

4. Cicero believed that __________ is a united body.
(a) Society.
(b) The judges.
(c) Family.
(d) The military.

5. In the second section of A Practical Code of Behavior, who can see how goodness and rightness are related?
(a) People with low intelligence.
(b) Women.
(c) People with perfect wisdom.
(d) People with flowed logic.

6. What do the respected men whom Cicero discusses have in common?
(a) They did wrong.
(b) They were all senators.
(c) They were all merchants.
(d) They did right.

7. According to Cicero, what would be the wrong thing for a merchant to do if there was knowledge of a food shortage?
(a) Give away food.
(b) Lower his prices.
(c) Leave the market.
(d) Increase his prices.

8. What does Cicero wish philosophy will be to Scipio's son?
(a) Rewarding and profitable.
(b) Fruitful and annoying.
(c) Annoying and profitable.
(d) Fruitful and rewarding.

9. How does Cicero qualify the people endowed with perfect wisdom?
(a) Senators.
(b) Common.
(c) Out of touch with reality.
(d) Hypothetical.

10. What impact does sharp practice have on the community?
(a) Good.
(b) No impact.
(c) Bad.
(d) Makes the people want more money.

11. What does Caesar claim was always advantageous according to Cicero?
(a) Bribes.
(b) Immoral actions.
(c) Morally right actions.
(d) Military victories.

12. What reason does Antony give for visiting Cicero's house?
(a) To receive his tuition.
(b) He was friends with his son.
(c) To court his daughter.
(d) To spy on him.

13. According to Cicero, what is the most serious crime a man can commit?
(a) To kill a woman.
(b) To kill a friend.
(c) To kill a tyrant.
(d) To kill an enemy.

14. Cicero states that men shouldn't covet __________.
(a) Another's wife.
(b) Power.
(c) Money.
(d) One another's goods.

15. What level does the duty of becoming wiser and better occupy, according to Cicero's arguments?
(a) Middle.
(b) First.
(c) Low.
(d) High.

Short Answer Questions

1. What argument did Anthony use to justify going after Cicero?

2. What was Catiline's main quality according to Cicero?

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

4. What differentiated Antony from Cicero's past enemies?

5. What did Anthony claim to have done during the election of the augurship?

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