Quiz 047

Episode 47 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 47: O Tempora, O Mores!. See what you remember about Cicero’s career during the decades of the 70s and 60s BCE by clicking “START” below!

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In December of 63 BCE, this senator was in favor of treating the conspirators with clemency.

Julius Caesar

Scipio Aemilianus

Cato the Younger

Cicero

Sertorius

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During the trial of Gaius Verres, Cicero:

Gave a relatively short speech and presented lots of evidence.

Failed to convince the jury to convict Verres of crimes.

Forgot the words to his speech and had to postpone his prosecution for several days.

Delivered the longest speech of his career and got Verres exiled immediately afterward.

Paid a junior orator to deliver his speech in order to bolster the younger man's career.

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Gaius Verres, whom Cicero prosecuted in 70 BCE, was

A general who had defected.

A Rhodesian pirate.

A crooked merchant.

An accused matricide.

A corrupt provincial ex-governor.

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A law called the lex Aurelia iudiciaria was passed in 70 BCE which impacted the makeup of Rome’s juries for senatorial trials. What did this law do?

It required all men serving as juries on senatorial trials to have a certain income level.

It stipulated that juries for senatorial trials had to be made up of Romans and not provincials.

It required that juries working on senatorial trials be composed of 2/3 equestrians.

It mandated that senators were not allowed to be included in juries during senatorial trials.

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During his praetorship, Cicero endorsed this general to command Rome’s campaign against Mithridates.

Crassus

Pompey

Lucullus

Sertorius

Julius Caesar

6 / 15

In 70 BCE, as part of a general pushback against political corruption, Pompey revived the office of:

Censor

Pontifex Maximus

Tribune

Propraetor

Proconsul

7 / 15

In 80 BCE, Cicero publicly associated this man with the murder of Sextus Roscius the Elder.

Chrysogonus

Cluentius

Fonteius

Verres

Crassus

8 / 15

In between his praetorship of 66 BCE and his consulship of 63 BCE, Cicero delivered a speech called On the Egyptian Kingdom. This speech was intended to discourage the assembly from letting which person below superintend an invasion of Egypt?

Hortensias

Catiline

Crassus

Oppianacus

Mark Antony

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Cicero delivered the Fourth Catilinarian oration in December of 63 BCE, a speech in favor of executing the conspirators who’d been planning with Catiline on a coup. What is the central rhetorical maneuver of this famous oration?

Saying that killing them will be merciful to everyone else.

Delivering an uncharacteristically short speech of just 740 words.

Drawing a parallel between Catiline and the Greek traitor Sinon.

Drawing a parallel between Catiline and the Athenian defector Alcibiades.

Creating a sustained tableau, or enargeia, of Catiline's attempted partnership with the Gauls.

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What did Chrysogonus do to Sextus Roscius the Elder in 81 BCE?

Chrysogonus sexually assaulted Roscius' daughter near the temple of the Vestal Virgins.

Chrysogonus cornered the market on pottery and drove Roscius out of business.

Chrysogonus promoted Roscius to the position of consul without Roscius' having held any of the other positions on the cursus honorum.

Chrysogonus had him killed and then acquired his property for almost nothing.

Chrysogonus funded Roscius' praetorial campaign using money seized during a dictatorial purge.

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Said you weren’t rich unless you could support an army with your income.

Cicero

Mark Antony

Crassus

Lentulus

Catiline

12 / 15

At the conspirators’ trial in December of 63 BCE, Cato the Younger discovered that another senator was sleeping with his sister Servilia. Who was this other senator?

Julius Caesar

Pompey

Catiline

Crassus

Sertorius

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Which of the following is NOT true about Catiline?

He lost a consulship to Cicero for the year of 63.

He was from an old but impoverished aristocratic family.

He fled to Etruria after Cicero outed him in front of the senate.

He was Julius Caesar's son-in-law.

He lost a consulship for the year 64 when Cicero wore body armor during a speech against his candidacy.

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Aediles helped oversee the flow of grain into the city. They superintended public games, festivals, buildings and open spaces. During Cicero’s aedileship in 69 BCE, he:

Helped keep the Sicilian grain import prices low.

Had tenements moved so that a public park could be built near the Aventine Hill.

Was in charge of decorations for the Lupercalia that year.

Funded the construction of a library on the Palatine.

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When he was a quaestor in 75 BCE, Cicero worked in one of the republic’s provinces. In which province did Cicero work?

Transalpine Gaul

Tracia

Corsica

Hispania

Sicily

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