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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Germanicus tell his soldiers about the German fighters?
(a) That they have no true military discipline
(b) That they are frightened by the screams of eagles
(c) That they will keep fighting to the very end
(d) That they can be distracted by the smell of beer

2. What does Tiberius do when he meets with Agrippina?
(a) Tries to seduce her in his bedchamber
(b) Promises to help her any way that he can
(c) Calls her a traitor and cuts off her head
(d) Beats her senseless with a vine sapling

3. Who is Flavius?
(a) The brother of the German general, Hermann.
(b) A slave who was captured in Germany.
(c) A former general with the German army.
(d) Germanicus's second-in-command.

4. What project does Livia stop Claudius from completing?
(a) Getting appointed to a public position
(b) A book about Augustus's religious reforms
(c) A history of his grandfather's campaigns
(d) The building of a new library in Rome

5. What is Claudius surprised about once Livia is dead?
(a) How much people loved his grandmother
(b) How long it takes the news to reach Tiberius
(c) How old her corpse looks on the pyre
(d) How much worse Tiberius begins to act

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Germanicus ask Claudius to do for him?

2. How does Tiberius propose rewarding Sejanus for breaking the Leek Green party?

3. According to Claudius, how many Germans for each Roman soldier killed in the battles?

4. What does rebel leader Bato compare the Roman governors to?

5. Where is Senator Gallus when the Roman Guards come to arrest him?

(see the answer key)

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