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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprises Augustus most about hearing Claudius declaim?
(a) Claudius is standing straighter.
(b) The speech goes on for two hours.
(c) Claudius does not stammer.
(d) The large audience loves Claudius.

2. What does Livia send to her son, Drusus?
(a) A bag containing golden coins
(b) A letter, denouncing him
(c) A box filled with poisoned food
(d) Her personal physician

3. What title does Tiberius refuse to use in Rome?
(a) Augustus
(b) Chief Ponticate
(c) Emperor
(d) Protector of the People

4. What project does Livia stop Claudius from completing?
(a) The building of a new library in Rome
(b) A history of his grandfather's campaigns
(c) Getting appointed to a public position
(d) A book about Augustus's religious reforms

5. In order to marry Julia, Tiberius must first. . .
(a) sacrifice a white bull to Jupiter.
(b) divorce his beloved wife, Vipsania.
(c) assassinate Julia's husband, Agrippa.
(d) adopt her three sons and two daughters.

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

7. Where is Claudius during Germanicus's triumphal return to Rome?
(a) In Capua
(b) In Ostia
(c) In Germany
(d) In Carthage

8. Germanicus promises Claudius, if he finds evidence that Postumus is innocent, he will. . .
(a) rescue Postumus from the island himself.
(b) make sure that Livia was tried for her crimes.
(c) investigate the death of their father.
(d) speak to Augustus about the matter.

9. How does Caligula leave the soldier's camp?
(a) Riding on Cassius's back
(b) In his mother's arms
(c) Screaming and crying
(d) Singing a jaunty march

10. Who is Agrippa?
(a) Marcellus's father
(b) A longtime friend and advisor to Augustus
(c) Livia's first husband
(d) Tiberius's first wife

11. What does Augustus do when he discovers that Julia is having sexual affairs?
(a) He orders Tiberius to return at once.
(b) He asks her to join the Vestals.
(c) He helps her divorce Tiberius and remarry.
(d) He orders her to be banished from Rome.

12. How does Marcellus die?
(a) He commits suicide.
(b) Agrippa stabs him.
(c) He dies in battle.
(d) Livia poisons him.

13. What happens to Julilla after Livia exposes her sexual affairs?
(a) She marries Claudius.
(b) She joins the Vestals.
(c) She is banished.
(d) She is sentenced to death.

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

15. Who offers to capture Postumus for Tiberius?
(a) Crispus
(b) Nerva
(c) Sejanus
(d) Livia

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Claudius blame for the mistakes that led to a Germanic uprising?

2. The only three men that Tiberius trusted were Sejanus, Nerva, and. . .

3. According to Claudius, how many Germans for each Roman soldier killed in the battles?

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

5. Who was the Crocodile?

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