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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section V, ch. 12-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why would corn factors NOT want to enhance Ostia?
(a) It indirectly gives them greater profits.
(b) The tourism industry will compete with their business.
(c) They will not be banished.
(d) Ostia will grow a better species of corn than their current ones.

2. What drives Herod from his post as a magistrate?
(a) He is caught taking bribes.
(b) He is bored and wants to seek more adventures.
(c) He insults his uncle at a banquet.
(d) Cypros wants to return to Rome.

3. What is the consensus of the people when Caligula dies?
(a) They are tearful that he is gone.
(b) They are generally apathetic to politics.
(c) They are happy his tyranny is at an end.
(d) They fear Caligula's lapdogs' struggle for power.

4. How does Messalina get Silanus reinstated into Rome?
(a) By betrothing him to her daughter.
(b) By giving him a consul position.
(c) By giving him enough land to be a lord.
(d) By marrying her mother.

5. What brings Herod to Bashan?
(a) Herod must hide away from Tiberius.
(b) His Uncle Philip lives there and assists him for a while.
(c) Bashan is desolate, where his creditors will not find him.
(d) Caligula names him the ruler under his dictatorship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the head conspirator of Caligula's assassination?

2. What cures Claudius of trembles and fatigue?

3. What does Claudius do to Caligula's statues?

4. Who attempts assassination on Claudius?

5. What happens to Seneca?

(see the answer key)

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