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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Senator Gallus when the Roman Guards come to arrest him?
(a) Just outside the Senate building
(b) Returning to Rome from his villa
(c) Eating dinner with Tiberius
(d) Seeing Agrippina off at the harbor

3. Who offers to capture Postumus for Tiberius?
(a) Livia
(b) Crispus
(c) Nerva
(d) Sejanus

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

5. What happens to Julilla after Livia exposes her sexual affairs?
(a) She is banished.
(b) She is sentenced to death.
(c) She joins the Vestals.
(d) She marries Claudius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Piso give Tiberius at his trial?

2. Where does Claudius meet Assinius Pollio?

3. Why does Augustus move the sword-fighters out of the city?

4. What do Tiberius's regiments do in their mutiny?

5. What does Germanicus fear Plancina is doing?

(see the answer key)

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