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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Livia refuse to do in the same room as Claudius?
(a) Listen to him talk
(b) Go to sleep
(c) Read a book
(d) Eat a meal

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

3. Why does Athenodorus leave Rome?
(a) He wants to do research at the Library at Alexandria.
(b) He feels that he would be happier living outside of Rome.
(c) He was framed by Livia for insurrection and banished.
(d) His nephews beg him to help them remove their governor.

4. What does Tiberius tell the senate about Postumus?
(a) That he was killed by one of his sailors
(b) That he was really a slave named Clement
(c) That he died in a shipwreck outside Ostia
(d) That he was still alive on his island

5. Who is Flavius?
(a) A former general with the German army.
(b) The brother of the German general, Hermann.
(c) A slave who was captured in Germany.
(d) Germanicus's second-in-command.

6. What is Caligula's real name?
(a) Nero
(b) Germanicus
(c) Gaius
(d) Drusus

7. What did Augustus tell Claudius just a month before he died?
(a) That he had decided to free Postumus
(b) That he had made changes to his will
(c) He wanted to give Claudius a public office
(d) That he was not interested in being a God

8. The senator Haterius was known for his skill in:
(a) Flattery
(b) Eloquence
(c) Insults
(d) Parody

9. Claudius is the biological grandson of:
(a) Drusus
(b) Mark Antony
(c) Tiberius
(d) Pompey

10. Why was Postumus not arrested at Ostia?
(a) He was disguised as a sailor and slipped into the crowd.
(b) The people of Ostia turned on the guards and beat them.
(c) He was unable to land in the harbor because of bad weather.
(d) The crowd was too large for the officers to challenge.

11. What does Livia demand Tiberius to do with the letter from his brother, Drusus?
(a) Read it aloud immediately
(b) Send it to Augustus
(c) Send it back unread
(d) Throw it into the fire

12. Tiberius trusted Nerva because of his. . .
(a) honesty.
(b) age.
(c) loyalty.
(d) connections.

13. The only three men that Tiberius trusted were Sejanus, Nerva, and. . .
(a) Gallus.
(b) Haterius.
(c) Thrasyllus.
(d) Germanicus.

14. Who accuses Postumus of trying to rape her?
(a) Only Livilla
(b) Æmillia and Urgulanilla
(c) Livilla and Julilla
(d) Both Livilla and Æmillia

15. What omen is cited by Tiberius to show that Augustus should become a God?
(a) There is an earthquake in Rome.
(b) His statue was struck by lightning.
(c) His statue was seen to move .
(d) The planets move into alignment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had some of the oldest soldiers served?

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

3. What does Pollio bet Livy that Claudius is reading?

4. The key to Livia and Augustus's higher cipher was found in the first chapter of. . .

5. How does Marcellus die?

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