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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which senator challenges Tiberius's reluctance to accept power?
(a) Atticus
(b) Cassius
(c) Crispus
(d) Gallus
2. What surprises Augustus most about hearing Claudius declaim?
(a) The speech goes on for two hours.
(b) Claudius does not stammer.
(c) The large audience loves Claudius.
(d) Claudius is standing straighter.
3. Why does Claudius become engaged to Urgulanilla?
(a) As a favor to Livia's friend
(b) It gives him more political status
(c) Augustus asks him to marry her
(d) He falls in love with her
4. What does Claudius shout when he is told about Augustus's death?
(a) Poor Postumus!
(b) That's it! I'm a dead man!
(c) Long live the Republic!
(d) Poison is Queen!
5. Which historian does Claudius hope to emulate?
(a) Cato
(b) Sulpicius
(c) Livy
(d) Pollio
Short Answer Questions
1. Augustus secretly frees Postumus from exile by. . .
2. Who is assumed to become Augustus's successor when he dies?
3. How long has Augustus ruled Rome?
4. What do Tiberius's regiments do in their mutiny?
5. What does the author mean when he refers to the regimental Eagle?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Claudius find out that his letters to Germanicus are being intercepted?
2. What argument does Tiberius use with Germanicus to get him to return to Rome?
3. How does Claudius investigate Pollio's charge that Livia murdered his father?
4. What does the nobleman predict will happen based on Claudius catching the wolf cub?
5. Why does Tiberius need Livia's help in running the government?
6. Why does Claudius wait until Germanicus returns to Rome to tell him that Postumus was innocent?
7. What book does Claudius write after finishing his history on Augustus's religious reforms?
8. How does Germanicus keep the Roman regiments from revolting?
9. What is deification?
10. How does Claudius describe Urgulanilla?
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