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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XI, ch. 27-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Pallas get to be so rich?
(a) Unintended bribes and no time to spend it.
(b) He pockets the money little by little as the city treasurer.
(c) He inherits the money from his uncle.
(d) He steals it from his clients.

2. How do the Druids practice religious cleansing?
(a) The arch-Druid leads a prayer at Stonehenge annually.
(b) They only marry within the Druid family.
(c) At the first of each month, the assigned society sacrifices an animal.
(d) They burn condemned men in wicker cages every five years.

3. What do Cleopatra and Calpurnia see in Rome that causes them alarm for Claudius?
(a) Silius speaking suspiciously to the commander of the palace guards.
(b) Messalina and Silius getting married.
(c) The Senate convening to speak of restoring the republic.
(d) Vitellius and Messalina committing adultery.

4. What does Togodumnus demand from Claudius?
(a) Gold.
(b) Caractacus.
(c) Full control of the British ports.
(d) Bericus and the regalia.

5. What causes a delay in Claudius' war against Britain?
(a) The elephants are unable to cross the channel.
(b) There is a dispute between commanders.
(c) Galba gets ill.
(d) Claudius becomes too busy with matters at home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Claudius want to build a harbor?

2. What literary innovation does Claudius suggest to the Senate?

3. Of the following, which is NOT a reform that Claudius plans for the government?

4. What does Claudius say he plans to do in his 7th year of rule?

5. How is Telegonius proved a runaway slave?

(see the answer key)

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