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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. What was Catiline's main quality according to Cicero?
(a) Unreliable.
(b) Outrageous.
(c) Funny.
(d) Good orator.

2. What does Cicero argue can be broken in section nine?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Promises.
(d) Treaties.

3. Who is modeling his actions after Rome's past enemies?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Marcus.
(c) Antony.
(d) Verres.

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

5. According to Cicero, toward whom is his work targeted?
(a) Antony's supporters.
(b) Those who can't see that goodness and rightness are synonymous.
(c) Cicero's supporters.
(d) The Senate.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cicero characterize robbery?

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

3. What would explain Antony trying to put Cicero at odds with the Senate?

4. Who interprets right as the only good according to Cicero?

5. What will the law always imperfectly mirror according to Cicero?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the two sides presented in the sixth section of A Practical Code of Behavior argue about?

2. In Attack on an Enemy of Freedom, what excuse does Antonius use to justify his attack on Cicero?

3. In the story told in section five of A Practical Code of Behavior, how is the man able to retain his credit while doing wrong?

4. What does Antonius blame on Cicero in an effort to discredit him?

5. What are the three questions Cicero analyzes in the first section of A Practical Code of Behavior?

6. According to Cicero in section five of A Practical Code of Behavior, what should the invisible man do?

7. What would not be blame worthy in the fourth section of A Practical Code of Behavior?

8. Who was left in charge of Rome during Caesar's absence, and how did that person fair?

9. What does Cicero argue about wrong in the third section of A Practical Code of Behavior?

10. According to Cicero, how does Antonius display his corruption?

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