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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section X, ch. 25-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Herod to arrest Silas?
(a) Silas is caught with Cypros.
(b) Silas purposefully insults Herod's guests.
(c) Silas does not know how to hold his tongue.
(d) Silas lies to Herod.

2. What rumor is going about in the Near East as Claudius fights in Britain?
(a) Herod will eventually take over as emperor.
(b) Rome is decaying and on the verge of collapse.
(c) Joshua and not Herod is the real Messiah.
(d) The King of Adiabene is bringing all the Jewish Kings together.

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

4. How does Antonia's push for a coachman's arrest backfire?
(a) The coachman reveals Antonia's treasonous intentions.
(b) Tiberius' threatens Antonia of banishment for not letting the matter go.
(c) The coachman reveals Herod's treasonous remarks.
(d) The coachman bribes Gemullus to lie about Herod.

5. How does Herod surprise Claudius concerning money?
(a) Herod gives it to Aristobulus.
(b) Herod uses it to educate his children.
(c) Herod gives his money to charity when he profits from investments.
(d) Herod repays his debt to Claudius before it is due.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his first months, what are Claudius' top priorities?

2. What stops Herod from his initial return to Rome?

3. What is Claudius' first decision as an emperor?

4. How does Herod end up in Rome?

5. What do the Alexandrians offer to build in honor of Claudius that most excites him?

(see the answer key)

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