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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. To whom did Cicero send the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Atticus.
(c) Tiro.
(d) Lucius Munatius Plancus.
2. Where was Cicero going when he wrote the second letter?
(a) To Rome.
(b) To Epirus.
(c) To Vilnius.
(d) To Cartage.
3. According to the twenty-first letter, what is Cicero's reaction to the speech which he heard?
(a) It was short.
(b) It was bad.
(c) It was good.
(d) It was inconsistent.
4. Whom is Cicero blaming for his wife's sorrow in his third letter?
(a) His children.
(b) The war.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Himself.
5. According to Cicero in his sixth argument against Verres, what did Verres try to do after the consular comitia?
(a) Plead guilty.
(b) Flee.
(c) Choose a new lawyer.
(d) Bribe judges.
Short Answer Questions
1. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?
2. In the seventeenth letter, what is Cicero's opinion of Brutus?
3. Who requested that Cicero take the case against Verres?
4. Where did Cicero write the fourth letter?
5. What did the new consul elect tell Verres when Verres congratulated him for his victory?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened in Sicily under Verres' rule?
2. What news does Cicero send Atticus in the sixteenth letter?
3. What did Cicero tell Pompey in the first letter of Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence?
4. What is Cicero writing about in the seventh letter?
5. Who is Cicero's contestant in the court in his tenth argument?
6. What did Hortensius tell Verres after his election to consul?
7. In the twelfth letter, what does Cicero say about the death of Caesar?
8. Cicero professes himself to be an enemy of what men?
9. To whom did Cicero send the last letter of Cicero's Life and Letters, Selection from his Correspondence and why?
10. Why didn't Verres' plan to bribe the judge succeed?
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