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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antonia say that Caligula did to Drusilla?
(a) Committed incest
(b) Killed her pony
(c) Tried to kill her
(d) Locked her in a room

2. Which historian does Claudius hope to emulate?
(a) Sulpicius
(b) Pollio
(c) Livy
(d) Cato

3. What, according to Claudius, was a great turning point in Tiberius's reign?
(a) The death of Livia
(b) The retirement to Capri
(c) Sejanus banishing Nero
(d) The Senate honoring Sejanus

4. How old is Caligula when he becomes emperor?
(a) Twenty-five years old
(b) Thirty years old
(c) Thirty-five years old
(d) Twenty years old

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What bad luck befalls Germanicus right after his successful battles?

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

3. How does Tiberius lose his friend, Nerva?

4. What does Livia demand Tiberius to do with the letter from his brother, Drusus?

5. What class of people did Augustus especially distrust?

(see the answer key)

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