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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Pollio bet Livy that Claudius is reading?
(a) Love poems
(b) Livia's book
(c) The Classics
(d) Trash

3. How do Livia and Urgulania describe the marriage of Claudius and Urgulanilla?
(a) The Quick and the Dead
(b) The Bookworm and the Boar
(c) The Camel and the Elephant
(d) The Dove and the Hawk

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

5. What does Claudius shout when he is told about Augustus's death?
(a) Long live the Republic!
(b) That's it! I'm a dead man!
(c) Poor Postumus!
(d) Poison is Queen!

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Augustus move the sword-fighters out of the city?

2. Who is assumed to become Augustus's successor when he dies?

3. What is Pollio's profession?

4. Which historian does Claudius hope to emulate?

5. What notable thing does Claudius do at his first games?

(see the answer key)

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