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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. Why does the royal family keep Claudius' death a secret for a few days?
(a) To organize who the successor will be.
(b) To allow private mourning time before the public knows.
(c) To write up a new will.
(d) To hide any evidence.

2. Of the following, which is NOT a reform that Claudius plans for the government?
(a) Change Senatorial terms to five years.
(b) Organize Cabinets of consuls that he creates.
(c) Establish consul in chiefs for departments.
(d) Form a separate judicial branch of government.

3. Who saves the Jews of the Near East from famine?
(a) The Queen of Adiabene.
(b) Claudius.
(c) Posides.
(d) The Alexandrian Jews.

4. What plague occurs the year Claudius and Agrippinilla marry?
(a) Frogs.
(b) Vipers.
(c) Rats.
(d) Lice.

5. What do Cleopatra and Calpurnia see in Rome that causes them alarm for Claudius?
(a) The Senate convening to speak of restoring the republic.
(b) Vitellius and Messalina committing adultery.
(c) Silius speaking suspiciously to the commander of the palace guards.
(d) Messalina and Silius getting married.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hands Caractacus over to Ostorius?

2. Who does Claudius expel from the city?

3. What does the reader discover about young Pompey?

4. How do the people accept Nero as the succeeding emperor after Claudius?

5. What does Claudius say he plans to do in his 7th year of rule?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Herod symbolize his manifestation as the Messiah?

2. What are the gods' opinions of Claudius as they confer on his deity?

3. What is Britannicus relationship with his father? How does it change in the last years of Claudius' life?

4. According to Claudius, what are the disadvantages of having the Senate be the main government body?

5. How might reinstating Mithridater to the Armenian throne help quell the alliance forming in the Near East?

6. How do rumors that Lucius is protected by double cobras come about?

7. What is the reaction of those in Hell when Claudius arrives? Why do they react this way?

8. Why does Claudius seem to favor Nero above Britannicus? What is his true plan?

9. Why does Claudius marry Agrippinilla over other potential women?

10. How does Agrippinilla give power into Nero's hands? How does Claudius react to this?

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