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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What notable thing does Claudius do at his first games?
(a) Fall out of the royal box
(b) Give the most stirring speech
(c) Faint when a gladiator dies
(d) Fight with one of the gladiators

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

3. What happened to Martina, the chief witness against Piso and Plancina?
(a) She was bribed to perjure herself.
(b) Livia sent her away to an island.
(c) She killed herself in her cell.
(d) She was killed by agents of Sejanus.

4. Why did neither Tiberius or Livia attend the Roman funeral for Germanicus?
(a) They would have been attacked by the people there.
(b) They were busy reviewing the annual tax records.
(c) They did not want to encounter his wife, Agrippina.
(d) They were too grief-stricken by his death.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What finally happens to Plancina?

2. What does Augustus blame for the low marriage rate in Rome?

3. What does Tiberius tell the senate about Postumus?

4. Which senator challenges Tiberius's reluctance to accept power?

5. What did Augustus tell Claudius just a month before he died?

(see the answer key)

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