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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What honor does Livia create for Urgulania?
(a) First Daughter of Rome
(b) Mother Confessor for the Vestals
(c) Chief Priestess to Diana
(d) Second Wife of the Emperor

2. 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!

3. Who does Actë engage to replace herself as Claudius's mistress?
(a) Agrippanilla
(b) Urgulanilla
(c) Calpurnia
(d) Æmillia

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who really orders the death of Postumus after Augustus dies?

2. Who does Claudius fall in love with?

3. What does Tiberius tell the senate about Postumus?

4. How does Marcellus die?

5. What was the amount of time the Roman soldiers wanted to serve before being discharged?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Germanicus's support necessary to redeem Postumus in Rome?

2. Why does Augustus refuse to eat or drink anything but bread, water, and figs straight from the tree?

3. How does Claudius describe Urgulanilla?

4. How does Tiberius react to Germanicus's loyal quelling of the troop revolts?

5. How does Livia get rid of Postumus?

6. Why is it better for Claudius that Livia thinks he is an idiot?

7. How does Claudius investigate Pollio's charge that Livia murdered his father?

8. How is Claudius related to Augustus Caesar?

9. What book does Claudius write after finishing his history on Augustus's religious reforms?

10. Why does Germanicus send his wife Agrippina, back to Rome?

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