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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. Who restored the tribunes?
(a) Cnaeus Pompeius.
(b) Cnaeus Tremellius.
(c) Marcus Atilius.
(d) Quintus Catulus.
2. Who co-wrote the eighth letter with Cicero?
(a) His children.
(b) Pompey.
(c) His brother and their sons.
(d) His wife.
3. In the fifteenth letter, how does Cicero qualify the state of the country?
(a) Good.
(b) In revolt.
(c) In chaos.
(d) In trouble.
4. 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.
5. Who hates Verres more than the Roman people in the fifteenth argument?
(a) Hortensius.
(b) Cnaeus Tremellius.
(c) Cicero.
(d) The judges.
Short Answer Questions
1. What post does Cicero say he is being offered in his third letter?
2. To whom did Cicero send the final letter in Cicero's Life and Letters?
3. Whose speech does Cicero go and listen to according to the twenty-first letter?
4. According to Cicero in his first point in Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I, how does Cicero see the court as being?
5. What does Cicero state cannot happen in a court of law?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Cicero complain about in the fourth letter?
2. What are the names of Cicero's wife and children?
3. What does the ninth argument tell us about Cicero's opinion of Marcus Metellus?
4. What is Cicero writing about in the seventh letter?
5. According to Cicero, what is the first thing Verres did when he came back from Sicily?
6. According to Cicero, what does Verres not use to oppose him?
7. What concern does Cicero express in his second letter?
8. According to Cicero in his second argument, what is the relationship like between Cicero and Verres prior to the trial?
9. What did Cicero learn from trustworthy sources concerning his candidacy to aedile, according to his eighth argument?
10. How does Cicero's opinion of Brutus change between the sixteenth and twenty-first letter?
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