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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Claudius, was a great turning point in Tiberius's reign?
(a) Sejanus banishing Nero
(b) The death of Livia
(c) The retirement to Capri
(d) The Senate honoring Sejanus

2. How does Tiberius die?
(a) He dies quietly of old age.
(b) Macro smothers him with a pillow.
(c) Caligula stabs him in the heart.
(d) He gets a chill from traveling.

3. Why does Caligula start to become unpopular?
(a) He begins ordering everyone to wear the color green.
(b) He stops holding games to punish the citizens for booing.
(c) He pushes hundreds of people into the water to drown.
(d) He orders so many holidays that no work can get done.

4. How did Antonia die?
(a) She threw herself off a cliff.
(b) She starved herself to death.
(c) She drank poison in her wine.
(d) She stabbed herself with a dagger.

5. What condition does Claudius demand of Livia?
(a) That she tell him the truth about her crimes
(b) That she promise to continue protecting Agrippina
(c) That she help him to divorce his new wife
(d) That she keep Tiberius in check by opposing him

6. How old is Caligula when he becomes emperor?
(a) Thirty years old
(b) Twenty years old
(c) Twenty-five years old
(d) Thirty-five years old

7. What does Calpurnia ask Claudius for instead of presents?
(a) The equivalent in cash
(b) That he save his money instead
(c) To marry her and make her honest
(d) That he buy more cows for the farm

8. What does Livia demand Claudius do to Urgulanilla's baby?
(a) Expose it on a hillside
(b) Sell it into slavery
(c) Adopt it as his own
(d) Strangle it in the cradle

9. Why was Claudius summoned to the Hall of Justice late one night?
(a) To go over Livia's records
(b) To watch Caligula dance
(c) To be sentenced to death
(d) To judge a trial against Jove

10. What does Livia tell Claudius about her own death?
(a) That she wants him to plan her funeral
(b) That she is planning to commit suicide
(c) That she will be murdered by Tiberius
(d) That she knows the very day she will die

11. What does Tiberius do when he meets with Agrippina?
(a) Tries to seduce her in his bedchamber
(b) Calls her a traitor and cuts off her head
(c) Beats her senseless with a vine sapling
(d) Promises to help her any way that he can

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

13. What does Claudius receive from Livia?
(a) A copy of Augustus's letters.
(b) An invitation to dine with her.
(c) An appointment to join the Senate.
(d) A warning about Sejanus's intentions.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Caligula amuses the populace by using what class of people as sword-fighters?

2. What does Claudius say about Nero, Germanicus's eldest son?

3. Who is the first person that Caligula ordered killed after taking the throne?

4. What does Claudius suspect happened to Drusilla?

5. What name did Caligula start using in his divine form?

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