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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Augustus ruled Rome?
(a) Sixty years
(b) Twenty years
(c) Forty years
(d) Fifty-five years

2. Augustus secretly frees Postumus from exile by. . .
(a) having a slave impersonate Postumus.
(b) pretending that Postumus has died.
(c) keeping all news from leaving his island.
(d) killing the soldiers that guarded him.

3. What does Claudius shout when he is told about Augustus's death?
(a) Long live the Republic!
(b) That's it! I'm a dead man!
(c) Poor Postumus!
(d) Poison is Queen!

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

5. Who is assumed to become Augustus's successor when he dies?
(a) Tiberius
(b) Postumus
(c) Castor
(d) Germanicus

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Livia and Urgulania describe the marriage of Claudius and Urgulanilla?

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

3. How does Marcellus die?

4. What does Livia send to her son, Drusus?

5. Who accuses Postumus of trying to rape her?

(see the answer key)

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