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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustus blame for the low marriage rate in Rome?
(a) The lack of priests to perform the ceremonies
(b) The fact that everyone is related to each other
(c) The ease of getting divorces for political reasons
(d) The selfishness and laziness of bachelorhood

2. How long has Augustus ruled Rome?
(a) Sixty years
(b) Twenty years
(c) Fifty-five years
(d) Forty years

3. Augustus secretly frees Postumus from exile by. . .
(a) keeping all news from leaving his island.
(b) killing the soldiers that guarded him.
(c) having a slave impersonate Postumus.
(d) pretending that Postumus has died.

4. What events trigger political unrest in Rome in 5 A.D.?
(a) A series of fires in the poor neighborhoods
(b) The deaths of a dozen popular senators
(c) Several uprisings led by former slaves
(d) Earthquakes, floods, and a famine

5. Livia finds out about Postumus's escape by. . .
(a) reading some letters that Augustus wrote.
(b) torturing one of Augustus's slaves.
(c) asking the wife of the man who helped Augustus.
(d) grilling Claudius for what he knows about it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which historian does Claudius hope to emulate?

3. What do Pollio and Livy argue about?

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

5. Who is assumed to become Augustus's successor when he dies?

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