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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Claudius think is the reason for the low marriage rate?
(a) Prostitutes are cheaper and nicer
(b) There are no pretty girls left
(c) Marrying the wrong family risks death
(d) Single women have more rights

2. What does Claudius advise the old Sergeant to do?
(a) Never turn his back on any of the German guards
(b) Compliment Caligula as much as he possibly can
(c) Leave the regiment and never look back again
(d) Keep his sword with him during Caligula's assembly

3. Cassius Chærea was disgusted when Caligula made him:
(a) Torture a young noble woman.
(b) Get married to a young boy.
(c) Kill a batch of puppies.
(d) Play horsie for Drusilla.

4. What project does Livia stop Claudius from completing?
(a) A book about Augustus's religious reforms
(b) Getting appointed to a public position
(c) A history of his grandfather's campaigns
(d) The building of a new library in Rome

5. What trick does Caligula use to cheer Tiberius up?
(a) He suggests some new person Tiberius can execute.
(b) He tells Tiberius about some new sexual practice.
(c) He tells Tiberius bawdy stories from the solider camps.
(d) He presents Tiberius with another virgin to violate.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Caligula when he becomes emperor?

2. What does Sejanus advise Claudius not to do?

3. Why is Piso sent to Syria?

4. What, according to Sejanus, is the Leek Green Party?

5. What does Tiberius do when he meets with Agrippina?

(see the answer key)

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