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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Antonia say that Caligula did to Drusilla?
(a) Killed her pony
(b) Locked her in a room
(c) Committed incest
(d) Tried to kill her

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

4. What does Tiberius do after Livia shames him?
(a) He leaves Rome on the advice of Sejanus.
(b) He begs her to stop persecuting him.
(c) He accuses her of murdering Postumus.
(d) He cultivates a friendship with Agrippina.

5. What does Sejanus advise Claudius not to do?
(a) Get married again too soon
(b) Spend too much time with Agrippina
(c) Bet on the Leek Green chariot team
(d) Divorce his wife Urgulanilla

6. Who is the first person that Caligula ordered killed after taking the throne?
(a) Antonia
(b) Drusilla
(c) Cassius
(d) Gemellus

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

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

9. Why is Piso sent to Syria?
(a) To raise more taxes for Rome
(b) To govern the province
(c) To build a new city
(d) To train the troops there

10. What disturbs Claudius about Caligula?
(a) Caligula likes to watch animals being killed.
(b) Caligula seems to share a secret with Livia.
(c) Caligula spends too much time with Tiberius.
(d) Caligula spends all his time gambling.

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

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

13. What does Claudius say about Nero, Germanicus's eldest son?
(a) He was not as smart as people thought he was.
(b) He was the only child to show polite behavior.
(c) He was prone to moods and easily corrupted.
(d) He was the only really good child of Germanicus.

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

15. What does Livia beg Claudius to do for her?
(a) Protect her great-grandchildren
(b) Restore the Republic
(c) Make sure she is deified
(d) Tell the true history of Rome

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Livia ask Plancina to do?

2. What does Claudius advise the old Sergeant to do?

3. What does Claudius miss most when he is staying in Carthage?

4. What book did Tiberius take with him?

5. What finally happens to Plancina?

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