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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 Clotho kill Augurinus and Baba?
(a) Claudius asks him to.
(b) Because of incest.
(c) For their murderous sins.
(d) To accompany Claudius on his journey.

2. How does Claudius determine how the public truly feels about him?
(a) He has Brittanicus spy for him.
(b) He dresses in plain white robes in the streets.
(c) He sends a message faking his death.
(d) Vitellius purposely says ill words about Claudius to see who will agree.

3. How do the Britons come to worship Claudius as a god?
(a) Claudius' "magic" in war compels them to believe he is a God.
(b) Aulus orders them to build a temple in Claudius' name.
(c) They mistake Claudius as Augustus.
(d) Claudius' triumph over them fulfills a legendary prophecy.

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

5. How does the wedding party of Messalina and Silius know to run before the guards arrive?
(a) By the trampling noise of the officers' feet.
(b) Pallus sends a messenger ahead of the guards to warn everyone.
(c) Vettius warns them from atop a tree.
(d) Barbillus predicted their coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who orders Messalina to be executed?

2. What happens to Rome after Nero dies?

3. What ability gains Nero popular admiration?

4. What causes a rivalry between Narcissus, Pallas and Callistus?

5. How does Claudius show justice against his own men?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Claudius marry Agrippinilla over other potential women?

2. How does Calpurnia show her loyalty to Claudius?

3. How does Claudius use his power as an emperor for personal use, and how does he justify his action?

4. 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.

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

6. What is the fate of the British isle now that the Romans have conquered it?

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

8. According to Claudius, what is the most important reason to conquer the British isles? What does it give to the Roman Empire above other commodities?

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

10. What is Claudius' view of religion?

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