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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Claudius become engaged to Urgulanilla?
(a) It gives him more political status
(b) He falls in love with her
(c) As a favor to Livia's friend
(d) Augustus asks him to marry her

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

3. Who is the first person that Caligula ordered killed after taking the throne?
(a) Drusilla
(b) Antonia
(c) Gemellus
(d) Cassius

4. What does Claudius shout when he is told about Augustus's death?
(a) Poison is Queen!
(b) Long live the Republic!
(c) Poor Postumus!
(d) That's it! I'm a dead man!

5. What is Caligula's real name?
(a) Nero
(b) Gaius
(c) Drusus
(d) Germanicus

Short Answer Questions

1. Who speaks at Livia's funeral?

2. Germanicus promises Claudius, if he finds evidence that Postumus is innocent, he will. . .

3. What does Pollio bet Livy that Claudius is reading?

4. What does Claudius think is the reason for the low marriage rate?

5. Which historian does Claudius hope to emulate?

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