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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the best part of Germanicus's final incursions against the Germans?
(a) He finds enough gold to finance fighting for another year.
(b) He recaptures one of the three lost Eagles.
(c) He is able to rescue a legion of captured Roman soldiers.
(d) He captures the mother of Flavius, ensuring his loyalty.

2. Where does Claudius meet Assinius Pollio?
(a) Out on a busy street
(b) At the Imperial Palace
(c) At the Apollo Library
(d) In a public bathhouse

3. Where is Claudius during Germanicus's triumphal return to Rome?
(a) In Ostia
(b) In Capua
(c) In Germany
(d) In Carthage

4. What is Caligula's real name?
(a) Gaius
(b) Nero
(c) Drusus
(d) Germanicus

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Claudius become engaged to Urgulanilla?

2. Who is the first person that Caligula ordered killed after taking the throne?

3. Who offers to capture Postumus for Tiberius?

4. Augustus secretly frees Postumus from exile by. . .

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

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