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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men came to Cicero's house according to the eighteenth letter?
(a) 2000 men.
(b) 20 men.
(c) 2 men.
(d) 200 men.

2. In what did Verres put his expectation of safety?
(a) Money.
(b) His innocence.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) The judges.

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

4. Whom does Cicero see in Rome according to the twenty-second letter?
(a) Brutus.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Gaius.
(d) Verres.

5. In the fourteenth letter, Cicero claims that ___________ delivered Atticus' previous letter.
(a) Pompey.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Tiro.
(d) Tullia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the new consul elect tell Verres when Verres congratulated him for his victory?

3. In the fifteenth letter, how does Cicero qualify the state of the country?

4. With whom does Cicero say Rome could be at war?

5. Who was elected consul during the election just prior to the start of the trial?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened in Sicily under Verres' rule?

2. What event does Cicero relate to Atticus in letters ten and eleven?

3. What does the ninth argument tell us about Cicero's opinion of Marcus Metellus?

4. What did Hortensius tell Verres after his election to consul?

5. Who wrote the eighth letter and to whom was it written?

6. According to Cicero, what is the first thing Verres did when he came back from Sicily?

7. In the twelfth letter, what does Cicero say about the death of Caesar?

8. Who is Cicero's contestant in the court in his tenth argument?

9. What did Cicero tell Pompey in the first letter of Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence?

10. What does Cicero tell Caesar in the twelfth letter?

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