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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marcellus die?
(a) Agrippa stabs him.
(b) He commits suicide.
(c) He dies in battle.
(d) Livia poisons him.

2. What do the eagles drop into Claudius's gown?
(a) A scroll
(b) A lamb
(c) An egg
(d) A wolf cub

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

4. What honor does Livia create for Urgulania?
(a) Mother Confessor for the Vestals
(b) Chief Priestess to Diana
(c) First Daughter of Rome
(d) Second Wife of the Emperor

5. What does Augustus do when he discovers that Julia is having sexual affairs?
(a) He helps her divorce Tiberius and remarry.
(b) He orders her to be banished from Rome.
(c) He asks her to join the Vestals.
(d) He orders Tiberius to return at once.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Triumvirate?

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

3. Which historian does Claudius hope to emulate?

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

5. Claudius is the biological grandson of:

(see the answer key)

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