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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Claudius miss most when he is staying in Carthage?
(a) Trees
(b) Playing dice
(c) Germanicus
(d) Calpurnia

3. What language does Claudius use to write his autobiography?
(a) English
(b) Greek
(c) Hebrew
(d) Latin

4. Why did neither Tiberius or Livia attend the Roman funeral for Germanicus?
(a) They would have been attacked by the people there.
(b) They were busy reviewing the annual tax records.
(c) They were too grief-stricken by his death.
(d) They did not want to encounter his wife, Agrippina.

5. What does Germanicus tell his soldiers about the German fighters?
(a) That they will keep fighting to the very end
(b) That they have no true military discipline
(c) That they can be distracted by the smell of beer
(d) That they are frightened by the screams of eagles

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Germanicus ask Claudius to do?

2. What is Claudius's full name?

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

4. What excuse does Claudius give to his mother for selling his property?

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

(see the answer key)

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