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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Postumus send word to Claudius that he is alive?
(a) He asks an old soldier to deliver a verbal message.
(b) He hires a prostitute to pass a letter to Claudius.
(c) He sends Claudius a book with a hidden message in it.
(d) He encloses a note in a package of fruit.

3. What finally happens to Plancina?
(a) She is acquitted of murdering Germanicus.
(b) She is invited to dinner by Livia and poisoned.
(c) She kills herself by taking poison.
(d) She returns to Syria and marries the new governor.

4. Who does Claudius fall in love with?
(a) Camilla
(b) Aemilia
(c) Julilla
(d) Agrippina

5. What did Augustus tell Claudius just a month before he died?
(a) That he had decided to free Postumus
(b) That he was not interested in being a God
(c) He wanted to give Claudius a public office
(d) That he had made changes to his will

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Augustus move the sword-fighters out of the city?

2. What does Castor promise Agrippina that he will do?

3. What notable thing does Claudius do at his first games?

4. What does Piso give Tiberius at his trial?

5. What does Augustus blame for the low marriage rate in Rome?

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