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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Claudius become his mother's guardian?
(a) She has become too old to take care of herself.
(b) Livia thinks it would be a good joke on her.
(c) Augustus wants to make sure he is busy.
(d) He is the oldest male left in his family.

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

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

4. What does Pollio bet Livy that Claudius is reading?
(a) Love poems
(b) The Classics
(c) Trash
(d) Livia's book

5. Name all of Julia's husbands.
(a) Agrippa and Tiberius
(b) Marcellus and Drusus
(c) Marcellus, Agrippa, and Tiberius
(d) Agrippa, Tiberius, and Drusus

Short Answer Questions

1. What notable thing does Claudius do at his first games?

2. What do Pollio and Livy argue about?

3. Who kills the German soldier who offered to fight "any Roman?"

4. How does Antonia regard her son, Claudius?

5. How does Marcellus die?

(see the answer key)

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