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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Augustus move the sword-fighters out of the city?
(a) They are expected to defend the outer boroughs.
(b) He is afraid they might lead rebellions.
(c) So that smaller cities can enjoy their shows.
(d) They are needed to help transport corn shipments.

2. How does Antonia regard her son, Claudius?
(a) She favors him.
(b) She dotes on him.
(c) She disowns him.
(d) She despises him.

3. 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 paints him as ambitious and rude to Augustus.
(d) She supports him as Augustus's last grandson.

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

5. What do Tiberius's regiments do in their mutiny?
(a) March on Rome with their swords raised
(b) Burn down their own tents and shelters
(c) Get drunk on wine captured from the Germans
(d) Murder or drive out most of the captains

6. Who rules Rome after the death of Mark Antony?
(a) Nero
(b) Pompey
(c) Claudius
(d) Augustus Caesar

7. What does Livia demand Tiberius to do with the letter from his brother, Drusus?
(a) Send it to Augustus
(b) Read it aloud immediately
(c) Send it back unread
(d) Throw it into the fire

8. Who kills the German soldier who offered to fight "any Roman?"
(a) Roach
(b) Augustus
(c) Cassius Chærea
(d) Germanicus

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

10. Who did Tiberius send to quell the mutinies in the Balkan forces?
(a) Claudius
(b) Cassius
(c) Castor
(d) Germanicus

11. Who is assumed to become Augustus's successor when he dies?
(a) Tiberius
(b) Germanicus
(c) Postumus
(d) Castor

12. What surprises Augustus most about hearing Claudius declaim?
(a) Claudius is standing straighter.
(b) The large audience loves Claudius.
(c) Claudius does not stammer.
(d) The speech goes on for two hours.

13. Why does Claudius become engaged to Urgulanilla?
(a) He falls in love with her
(b) Augustus asks him to marry her
(c) It gives him more political status
(d) As a favor to Livia's friend

14. Who was the Crocodile?
(a) One of the Roman Guards at the Imperial palace.
(b) A helpful librarian at the temple of Apollo in Rome.
(c) One of the men who guarded Postumus on the island.
(d) A freedman who had worked for Postumus's father.

15. To avoid conflict with Julia, Tiberius decides to. . .
(a) move back into her bedroom.
(b) father a child with her.
(c) exile himself from Rome.
(d) have an affair with Vipsania.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who really orders the death of Postumus after Augustus dies?

2. What did Augustus tell Claudius just a month before he died?

3. Who accuses Postumus of trying to rape her?

4. What is Pollio's profession?

5. What does Augustus blame for the low marriage rate in Rome?

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