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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What title does Tiberius refuse on Livia's behalf?
(a) Dowager
(b) Empress
(c) Mother of the Country
(d) High Priestess to Augustus

2. What honor does Livia create for Urgulania?
(a) Mother Confessor for the Vestals
(b) Second Wife of the Emperor
(c) First Daughter of Rome
(d) Chief Priestess to Diana

3. What really happened to Postumus?
(a) He was tortured and then killed.
(b) He gave up his cause and disappeared.
(c) He agreed to go back to his island.
(d) He was captured and sent to Eqypt.

4. Who was the Crocodile?
(a) A freedman who had worked for Postumus's father.
(b) One of the men who guarded Postumus on the island.
(c) One of the Roman Guards at the Imperial palace.
(d) A helpful librarian at the temple of Apollo in Rome.

5. What finally happens to Plancina?
(a) She is acquitted of murdering Germanicus.
(b) She is invited to dinner by Livia and poisoned.
(c) She kills herself by taking poison.
(d) She returns to Syria and marries the new governor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What events trigger political unrest in Rome in 5 A.D.?

2. What does Livia ask Plancina to do?

3. How does Postumus send word to Claudius that he is alive?

4. Who accuses Postumus of trying to rape her?

5. How do Livia and Urgulania describe the marriage of Claudius and Urgulanilla?

(see the answer key)

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