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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 Augustus blame for the low marriage rate in Rome?
(a) The ease of getting divorces for political reasons
(b) The lack of priests to perform the ceremonies
(c) The selfishness and laziness of bachelorhood
(d) The fact that everyone is related to each other

2. Who does Claudius fall in love with?
(a) Camilla
(b) Agrippina
(c) Aemilia
(d) Julilla

3. What does Castor promise Agrippina that he will do?
(a) Investigate the haunting of the house in Antioch
(b) Stand up to Livilla and get a divorce
(c) Speak to Tiberius about the behavior of Piso
(d) Defend Germanicus's children and avenge his death

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accuses Postumus of trying to rape her?

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

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

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

5. What title does Tiberius refuse to use in Rome?

(see the answer key)

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