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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What title does Tiberius refuse to use in Rome?
(a) Protector of the People
(b) Augustus
(c) Emperor
(d) Chief Ponticate

2. Where does Claudius meet Assinius Pollio?
(a) Out on a busy street
(b) In a public bathhouse
(c) At the Apollo Library
(d) At the Imperial Palace

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Athenodorus leave Rome?

2. How long has Augustus ruled Rome?

3. How does Antonia regard her son, Claudius?

4. What omen is cited by Tiberius to show that Augustus should become a God?

5. Which historian does Claudius hope to emulate?

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