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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Caligula's real name?
(a) Germanicus
(b) Drusus
(c) Gaius
(d) Nero

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

3. When Tiberius adopts Germanicus, Claudius's brother is brought into which family?
(a) The Tiberian Family
(b) The Claudian Family
(c) The Julian Family
(d) The Drusillan Family

4. What attitude does Livia take towards Postumus?
(a) She decribes him as very gentle and loving.
(b) She suggests that he be given more honors.
(c) She supports him as Augustus's last grandson.
(d) She paints him as ambitious and rude to Augustus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Castor promise Agrippina that he will do?

2. What is Pollio's profession?

3. What does Livia send to her son, Drusus?

4. What does Livia tell Claudius about her own death?

5. Which historian does Claudius hope to emulate?

(see the answer key)

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