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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the eagles drop into Claudius's gown?
(a) A wolf cub
(b) A lamb
(c) An egg
(d) A scroll

2. How does Antonia regard her son, Claudius?
(a) She favors him.
(b) She disowns him.
(c) She dotes on him.
(d) She despises him.

3. What is Claudius actually reading?
(a) One of Livy's books
(b) A letter from his brother
(c) Livia's book
(d) One of Pollio's books

4. To avoid conflict with Julia, Tiberius decides to. . .
(a) move back into her bedroom.
(b) exile himself from Rome.
(c) father a child with her.
(d) have an affair with Vipsania.

5. Name all of Julia's husbands.
(a) Marcellus, Agrippa, and Tiberius
(b) Marcellus and Drusus
(c) Agrippa, Tiberius, and Drusus
(d) Agrippa and Tiberius

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Triumvirate?

2. Which historian does Claudius hope to emulate?

3. Who is Athenodorus?

4. What does Drusus urge Tiberius to do in his letter?

5. Who rules Rome after the death of Mark Antony?

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