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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Livia and Urgulania describe the marriage of Claudius and Urgulanilla?
(a) The Dove and the Hawk
(b) The Quick and the Dead
(c) The Bookworm and the Boar
(d) The Camel and the Elephant

2. Why was Postumus not arrested at Ostia?
(a) The people of Ostia turned on the guards and beat them.
(b) He was disguised as a sailor and slipped into the crowd.
(c) The crowd was too large for the officers to challenge.
(d) He was unable to land in the harbor because of bad weather.

3. What does Livia ask Plancina to do?
(a) Use her witchcraft to kill Agrippina and her children
(b) Get the incriminating letter that Livia wrote to Piso
(c) To leave Rome and return to Syria after Piso's death
(d) Persuade Piso to kill himself before the trial ends

4. What honor does Livia create for Urgulania?
(a) Chief Priestess to Diana
(b) Mother Confessor for the Vestals
(c) Second Wife of the Emperor
(d) First Daughter of Rome

5. Why does Claudius become engaged to Urgulanilla?
(a) It gives him more political status
(b) As a favor to Livia's friend
(c) Augustus asks him to marry her
(d) He falls in love with her

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Augustus tell Claudius just a month before he died?

2. Who accuses Postumus of trying to rape her?

3. With Postumus gone, who is the sole heir to Augustus's crown?

4. What does Piso give Tiberius at his trial?

5. Who kills the German soldier who offered to fight "any Roman?"

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