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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Agrippa?
(a) Livia's first husband
(b) Tiberius's first wife
(c) A longtime friend and advisor to Augustus
(d) Marcellus's father

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

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

4. Who accuses Postumus of trying to rape her?
(a) Only Livilla
(b) Æmillia and Urgulanilla
(c) Livilla and Julilla
(d) Both Livilla and Æmillia

5. Who kills the German soldier who offered to fight "any Roman?"
(a) Augustus
(b) Roach
(c) Cassius Chærea
(d) Germanicus

Short Answer Questions

1. Name all of Julia's husbands.

2. What does Claudius think is the reason for the low marriage rate?

3. What does Claudius shout when he is told about Augustus's death?

4. What do Pollio and Livy argue about?

5. How does Marcellus die?

(see the answer key)

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