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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which historian does Claudius hope to emulate?
(a) Pollio
(b) Sulpicius
(c) Cato
(d) Livy

3. Where does Claudius meet Assinius Pollio?
(a) Out on a busy street
(b) In a public bathhouse
(c) At the Apollo Library
(d) At the Imperial Palace

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

5. What is Pollio's profession?
(a) Statesman
(b) Philosopher
(c) General
(d) Historian

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Livia send to her son, Drusus?

2. Claudius is the biological grandson of:

3. Who is Athenodorus?

4. Who is Agrippa?

5. What is a Triumvirate?

(see the answer key)

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