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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) Single women have more rights
(d) Marrying the wrong family risks death

2. What title does Tiberius refuse to use in Rome?
(a) Protector of the People
(b) Augustus
(c) Chief Ponticate
(d) Emperor

3. Which senator challenges Tiberius's reluctance to accept power?
(a) Cassius
(b) Gallus
(c) Atticus
(d) Crispus

4. When Tiberius adopts Germanicus, Claudius's brother is brought into which family?
(a) The Claudian Family
(b) The Drusillan Family
(c) The Tiberian Family
(d) The Julian Family

5. What happens to Julilla after Livia exposes her sexual affairs?
(a) She is banished.
(b) She joins the Vestals.
(c) She is sentenced to death.
(d) She marries Claudius.

6. Sejanus persuaded Tiberius to. . .
(a) create a special political office for Sejanus.
(b) raise the taxes to pay bonuses to the soldiers.
(c) appoint him to the senate after Haterius left.
(d) build a permanent camp for the Roman Guards.

7. Who does Actë engage to replace herself as Claudius's mistress?
(a) Æmillia
(b) Calpurnia
(c) Urgulanilla
(d) Agrippanilla

8. What is Claudius actually reading?
(a) One of Livy's books
(b) A letter from his brother
(c) One of Pollio's books
(d) Livia's book

9. What does Livia refuse to do in the same room as Claudius?
(a) Listen to him talk
(b) Read a book
(c) Go to sleep
(d) Eat a meal

10. Who was the Crocodile?
(a) A helpful librarian at the temple of Apollo in Rome.
(b) One of the men who guarded Postumus on the island.
(c) One of the Roman Guards at the Imperial palace.
(d) A freedman who had worked for Postumus's father.

11. How does Antonia regard her son, Claudius?
(a) She dotes on him.
(b) She disowns him.
(c) She despises him.
(d) She favors him.

12. What language does Claudius use to write his autobiography?
(a) English
(b) Hebrew
(c) Greek
(d) Latin

13. With Postumus gone, who is the sole heir to Augustus's crown?
(a) Tiberius
(b) Castor
(c) Claudius
(d) Germanicus

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

15. Who did Tiberius send to quell the mutinies in the Balkan forces?
(a) Castor
(b) Claudius
(c) Cassius
(d) Germanicus

Short Answer Questions

1. What honor does Livia create for Urgulania?

2. What does Drusus urge Tiberius to do in his letter?

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

4. How does Marcellus die?

5. What is Claudius's full name?

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