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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Pollio and Livy argue about?
(a) Which god is most powerful
(b) Who will succeed Augustus
(c) The Empire and the Republic
(d) The proper way to write history

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

3. Who is Athenodorus?
(a) Claudius's best friend
(b) Antonia's steward
(c) Claudius's favorite tutor
(d) Antonia's new husband

4. How long had some of the oldest soldiers served?
(a) Thirty-five years
(b) Ten years
(c) Twenty-five years
(d) Five years

5. What does Germanicus ask Claudius to do?
(a) Secretly send him two hundred thousand gold coins
(b) Speak to Tiberius on behalf of the regiments
(c) Steal money from the public purse to pay the soldiers
(d) Forge a letter from Tiberius and send it by courier

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Claudius meet Assinius Pollio?

2. What does Augustus blame for the low marriage rate in Rome?

3. When Tiberius adopts Germanicus, Claudius's brother is brought into which family?

4. Why does Claudius become his mother's guardian?

5. Livia finds out about Postumus's escape by. . .

(see the answer key)

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