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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Sejanus, is the Leek Green Party?
(a) A secret group of skilled assassins
(b) An event to which Tiberius was not invited
(c) Livia's network of senator's wives
(d) A political faction led by Agrippina

2. What is Claudius surprised about once Livia is dead?
(a) How old her corpse looks on the pyre
(b) How long it takes the news to reach Tiberius
(c) How much worse Tiberius begins to act
(d) How much people loved his grandmother

3. What trick does Caligula use to cheer Tiberius up?
(a) He suggests some new person Tiberius can execute.
(b) He tells Tiberius about some new sexual practice.
(c) He tells Tiberius bawdy stories from the solider camps.
(d) He presents Tiberius with another virgin to violate.

4. Why is Egypt so important to Rome?
(a) Most of the troops come from Egypt.
(b) The largest library in the world is there.
(c) It supplies Rome with corn.
(d) It is a good source of marble.

5. Who does Caligula marry Claudius to?
(a) Messalina
(b) Agrippinilla
(c) Ganymede
(d) Calpurnia

6. What did Caligula promise Cassius Chærea?
(a) To allow him to retire with honors
(b) To appoint him as Macro's replacement
(c) To send him back to Germany to fight
(d) To give him an appointment to the Senate

7. One of Caligula's first acts is to:
(a) Dissolve the Senate
(b) Make his grandmother a Goddess
(c) Declare war on Carthage
(d) Declare a general amnesty

8. Who wrote most of the satiric songs and poems about Tiberius?
(a) Castor
(b) Agrippina
(c) Livia
(d) Claudius

9. Caligula amuses the populace by using what class of people as sword-fighters?
(a) Former Senators and their wives
(b) People who cannot pay their debts
(c) Hostages from foreign lands
(d) Prisoners of war from Germany

10. Who speaks at Livia's funeral?
(a) Caligula
(b) Claudius
(c) Nero
(d) Tiberius

11. What does Livia call Caligula?
(a) A sweetheart
(b) A monster
(c) An artist
(d) Very handsome

12. What does Claudius suspect happened to Drusilla?
(a) Caligula cut her throat.
(b) She ran away to escape her brother.
(c) She was thrown in the river.
(d) Caligula starved her to death.

13. What does Caligula make his sisters do to earn their keep?
(a) Make tapestries and pots to sell
(b) Prostitute themselves to wealthy noblemen
(c) Go out begging on the streets
(d) Sing and dance at the theater

14. Where do the looting soldiers find Claudius?
(a) Reading books in a library
(b) Eating luncheon in the Palace
(c) Hiding behind a curtain
(d) Taking a bath in his rooms

15. What happened to Martina, the chief witness against Piso and Plancina?
(a) She killed herself in her cell.
(b) Livia sent her away to an island.
(c) She was killed by agents of Sejanus.
(d) She was bribed to perjure herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tiberius do when he meets with Agrippina?

2. Where is Germanicus sent after finishing his Consulship?

3. Why was Claudius summoned to the Hall of Justice late one night?

4. How does Tiberius lose his friend, Nerva?

5. What does Livia tell Claudius about himself?

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