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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Domitian receive news of Agricola's successes?
(a) He was proud of his men.
(b) He was jealous.
(c) He was more concerned with Germany and dismissed the news.
(d) He was elated for some good news.

2. What did Otho's fleet do to Agricola?
(a) Surprise attacked him from the rear.
(b) Poisoned him.
(c) Murdered his mother and plundered her fortunes.
(d) Denied his power as consul and disobeyed his orders.

3. According to Tacitus, Agricola felt it was more "honourable to __________ than to hate."
(a) Love.
(b) Be loyal.
(c) Die.
(d) Hurt.

4. Where did Agricola stand when fighting with his men?
(a) In the middle as his men surrounded him.
(b) In the back.
(c) He did not fight in the battlegrounds.
(d) In the very front.

5. In the Introduction, Mattingly claims the Germans needed what if they were to ever reach maturity?
(a) A united kingdom.
(b) Power over drinking.
(c) A fierce ruler.
(d) Roman discipline.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mattingly, what seems to be missing from Tacitus' accounts of Britain?

2. Of the following, which power did the Roman emperor NOT possess?

3. Tacitus credited whom for Roman successes?

4. Of the following, which title did Tacitus never hold?

5. How did Agricola's successes become so famous?

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