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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who orders Messalina to be executed?
(a) Narcissus.
(b) A high consul.
(c) Vitellius.
(d) Claudius.

3. Who does Claudius return to the Senatorial province state?
(a) France and Belgium.
(b) Macedonia and Greece.
(c) Israel and Syria.
(d) Egypt and Morocco.

4. Of the following, which is NOT a reform that Claudius plans for the government?
(a) Organize Cabinets of consuls that he creates.
(b) Form a separate judicial branch of government.
(c) Establish consul in chiefs for departments.
(d) Change Senatorial terms to five years.

5. What literary innovation does Claudius suggest to the Senate?
(a) To add 3 letters to the alphabet.
(b) To create a book of all the words in the Latin language.
(c) To add a list of words he has created.
(d) Encyclopedias.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Narcissus keep the truth of Messalina from Claudius?

2. What ritual does Claudius perform the midnight before battle?

3. What prediction allows Claudius to not worry about Agrippinilla?

4. What does Claudius do on his first triumph anniversary?

5. How does Bardanes meet his end?

Short Essay Questions

1. What punishments does the court in Hell consider for Claudius?

2. Of the five additional honors the Senate gives Claudius for his victory in Britain, describe two of them and explain why he is chosen to have these honors.

3. What are the usual feelings about a solar eclipse by the public? How does Claudius get the populace to feel differently about it?

4. How do the Senate and people react to Messalina and Claudius' separation?

5. As Claudius presides over the trials of Messalina's adulterers and traitors at the wedding party, Messalina writes him three letters. Describe these letters and how it shows Messalina's true character.

6. How might reinstating Mithridater to the Armenian throne help quell the alliance forming in the Near East?

7. What is the invisible barrier between Claudius and the Senate, and how does it come about?

8. What are the gods' opinions of Claudius as they confer on his deity?

9. According to Claudius, what are the disadvantages of having the Senate be the main government body?

10. How do rumors that Lucius is protected by double cobras come about?

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