Cicero Biography

Question 1

What is Cicero’s full name?

Answer 1

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Question 2

When and where did Cicero die?

Answer 2

43 B.C., Rome

Question 3

When and where was Cicero born?

Answer 3

Arpinum, 106 B.C.

Question 4

With whom did Cicero study in Rome?

Answer 4

Lucius Licinius Crassus and the two Scaevolas

Question 5

Who was Cicero’s best friend?

Answer 5

(Titus Pomponius) Atticus

Question 6

Under whose command did Cicero fight in the Social War in 89 B.C.?

Answer 6

Pompeius Strabo (father of Pompey)

Question 7

When did Cicero make his debut as an orator?

Answer 7

81 B.C.

Question 8

Who did Cicero study rhetoric under when he made a trip to Greece and Asia from 79-77 B.C.?

Answer 8

Molon of Rhodes

Question 9

Who was Cicero’s first wife?

Answer 9

Terentia

Question 10

What are the names of Cicero’s children by Terentia?

Answer 10

Tullia (76 B.C.) and Marcus (65 B.C.)

Question 11

What was significant about Cicero’s quaestorship and praetorship?

Answer 11

he held these offices at the youngest age possible

Question 12

When was Cicero consul?

Answer 12

63 B.C.

Question 13

Why was Cicero put into exile in 58 B.C.?

Answer 13

he was accused of putting Cataline’s accomplices to death without a trial by Clodius

Question 14

Whose side did Cicero take in the Civil War?

Answer 14

Pompey’s (Caesar pardoned him after he lost)

Question 15

When did Cicero divorce Terentia?

Answer 15

46 B.C.

Question 16

Who was Cicero’s second wife?

Answer 16

Publilia (his young ward)

Question 17

Who was Cicero’s most famous slave and scribe?

Answer 17

Tiro

Question 18

When did Cicero’s daughter Tullia die?

Answer 18

45 B.C.

Question 19

What political condition removed Cicero from public affairs and allowed him to write many philosophical works in the mid 40s B.C.?

Answer 19

Caesar had gained enormous political power

Question 20

What event allowed Cicero to return to public life in the mid 40s B.C.?

Answer 20

murder of Julius Caesar

Question 21

Why was Cicero’s name added to the list of proscriptions?

Answer 21

he had criticized Mark Antony in the Philippics and Octavian abandoned the Senate

Question 22

On what day was Cicero killed?

Answer 22

December 7, 43 B.C.

Question 23

Who killed Cicero?

Answer 23

Antony’s assassins

Question 24

Who wrote five books of commentaries on Cicero for his young sons?

Answer 24

Asconius Pedus

Question 25

What allowed him to return from exile on September 4th, 57 B.C.?

Answer 25

the law that had placed him in exile was enacted on August 4 due to the support of Pompey and Milo