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

2. How does Caligula leave the soldier's camp?
(a) Riding on Cassius's back
(b) In his mother's arms
(c) Singing a jaunty march
(d) Screaming and crying

3. What does Livia demand Claudius do to Urgulanilla's baby?
(a) Sell it into slavery
(b) Expose it on a hillside
(c) Adopt it as his own
(d) Strangle it in the cradle

4. How did Antonia die?
(a) She stabbed herself with a dagger.
(b) She starved herself to death.
(c) She drank poison in her wine.
(d) She threw herself off a cliff.

5. With Tiberius gone, who was left in charge of the Roman Empire?
(a) Nero
(b) Livia
(c) Caligula
(d) Sejanus

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pollio's profession?

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

3. What does Pollio bet Livy that Claudius is reading?

4. Who is Claudius surprised to find in his bedroom?

5. According to Claudius, how many Germans for each Roman soldier killed in the battles?

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