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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Germanicus ask Claudius to do for him?
(a) Avoid antagonizing Livia, Antonia, and Livilla
(b) Ask Augustus for permission to visit Postumus
(c) Write to him about all the political gossip
(d) Research information about the Balkan tribes

2. When does Tiberius repay Germanicus for the gold coins he gave to the soldiers?
(a) Never
(b) After he pays the Balkan troops
(c) After the German campaign
(d) Two years later

3. What does Pollio bet Livy that Claudius is reading?
(a) Love poems
(b) Livia's book
(c) Trash
(d) The Classics

4. What really happened to Postumus?
(a) He gave up his cause and disappeared.
(b) He was captured and sent to Eqypt.
(c) He agreed to go back to his island.
(d) He was tortured and then killed.

5. What does Drusus urge Tiberius to do in his letter?
(a) Oppose Augustus and restore the Republic
(b) Support Augustus through the civil unrest
(c) Come back to Germany and help fight
(d) Leave Julia and marry the woman he loves

6. Who really orders the death of Postumus after Augustus dies?
(a) Tiberius
(b) Livia
(c) Crispus
(d) Augustus

7. How long has Augustus ruled Rome?
(a) Forty years
(b) Twenty years
(c) Fifty-five years
(d) Sixty years

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

9. Why does Claudius become his mother's guardian?
(a) Augustus wants to make sure he is busy.
(b) Livia thinks it would be a good joke on her.
(c) She has become too old to take care of herself.
(d) He is the oldest male left in his family.

10. What kind of animal does Livia compare Claudius to?
(a) A parrot
(b) A lemur
(c) A lion
(d) A wolf

11. Which historian does Claudius hope to emulate?
(a) Cato
(b) Sulpicius
(c) Pollio
(d) Livy

12. What project does Livia stop Claudius from completing?
(a) Getting appointed to a public position
(b) A history of his grandfather's campaigns
(c) A book about Augustus's religious reforms
(d) The building of a new library in Rome

13. What does the name "Caligula" mean?
(a) Little Boots
(b) Little Emperor
(c) Little General
(d) Little Dancer

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

15. The key to Livia and Augustus's higher cipher was found in the first chapter of. . .
(a) The Odyssey.
(b) The Iliad.
(c) Ovid's Love Poems.
(d) Virgil's Æneid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Pollio and Livy argue about?

2. What does Livia demand Tiberius to do with the letter from his brother, Drusus?

3. What does rebel leader Bato compare the Roman governors to?

4. What does Germanicus ask Claudius to do?

5. How does Postumus send word to Claudius that he is alive?

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