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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XIV, Three Accounts of Claudius' Death & Pumpkinification of Claudius, a Satire in Verse and Prose.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plague occurs the year Claudius and Agrippinilla marry?
(a) Lice.
(b) Rats.
(c) Frogs.
(d) Vipers.

2. How does Claudius show justice against his own men?
(a) He executes them if they kill unnecessarily.
(b) He takes their goods away if they plunder from women and children.
(c) He punishes the men that violates his law against women.
(d) He puts them in the frontlines if they show laziness.

3. What causes a rivalry between Narcissus, Pallas and Callistus?
(a) They each want to be the palace guard colonel.
(b) They disagree on what to do with Messalina.
(c) They each want to be Claudius' principal adviser.
(d) They disagree on whom Claudius should marry.

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

5. Who attempts assassination on Claudius?
(a) Seneca.
(b) A freed man of Lesbia's.
(c) Messalina.
(d) A slave of Lesbia's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Vinicianus call on to command a coup?

2. What change in treasury does Claudius do?

3. Where does Claudius get men for his sword fights?

4. What does the triumph symbolize to Claudius?

5. What does Herod advise the Senate?

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