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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Livia ask Plancina to do?
(a) Persuade Piso to kill himself before the trial ends
(b) Use her witchcraft to kill Agrippina and her children
(c) To leave Rome and return to Syria after Piso's death
(d) Get the incriminating letter that Livia wrote to Piso

2. Why does Claudius become engaged to Urgulanilla?
(a) He falls in love with her
(b) It gives him more political status
(c) As a favor to Livia's friend
(d) Augustus asks him to marry her

3. What notable thing does Claudius do at his first games?
(a) Faint when a gladiator dies
(b) Give the most stirring speech
(c) Fight with one of the gladiators
(d) Fall out of the royal box

4. Which senator challenges Tiberius's reluctance to accept power?
(a) Gallus
(b) Atticus
(c) Cassius
(d) Crispus

5. Who does Claudius fall in love with?
(a) Aemilia
(b) Julilla
(c) Agrippina
(d) Camilla

Short Answer Questions

1. With Postumus gone, who is the sole heir to Augustus's crown?

2. What does Augustus blame for the low marriage rate in Rome?

3. What honor does Livia create for Urgulania?

4. Who really orders the death of Postumus after Augustus dies?

5. What happened to Martina, the chief witness against Piso and Plancina?

(see the answer key)

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