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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. In his first months, what are Claudius' top priorities?
(a) Financing reorganization and abolition of Caligula's harsher decrees.
(b) Making the Jewish population happy.
(c) Planning a festival for his favorite gods.
(d) Meeting with the local people and getting on the same page as the Senate.

2. What plan does Britannicus present to Claudius?
(a) Exile him so he may restore the Republic after Nero dies.
(b) Assassinate Agrippinilla and Nero.
(c) Give him a chance at schooling and fight Nero.
(d) Restore the Republic the day before Claudius dies.

3. 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) The King of Adiabene is bringing all the Jewish Kings together.
(d) Joshua and not Herod is the real Messiah.

4. Why does Claudius give sacrifices to Diana and Apollo?
(a) Because they guided him to a victory on the Rhine.
(b) Because of the solar eclipse.
(c) Because Barbillus advised him to.
(d) Because he felt threatened by Herod.

5. Why does Claudius celebrate with a ten-day festival and a mock sea battle?
(a) It's time to drain Fucine Lake.
(b) Rome just won a sea battle against the Norse.
(c) Because he feels bored.
(d) It's the year of Neptune.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Antonia's push for a coachman's arrest backfire?

2. What does Herod do at the temple of treasury in Jerusalem?

3. Who saves the Jews of the Near East from famine?

4. What is the only thing Umbonius sells at his public auction?

5. What kind of reputation do Castor and Herod build themselves in Rome?

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