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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. How long has Augustus ruled Rome?
(a) Twenty years
(b) Fifty-five years
(c) Sixty years
(d) Forty years

2. What does Tiberius tell the senate about Postumus?
(a) That he was killed by one of his sailors
(b) That he was still alive on his island
(c) That he died in a shipwreck outside Ostia
(d) That he was really a slave named Clement

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

4. Tiberius trusted Nerva because of his. . .
(a) connections.
(b) honesty.
(c) loyalty.
(d) age.

5. What language does Claudius use to write his autobiography?
(a) Hebrew
(b) Latin
(c) English
(d) Greek

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Flavius?

2. Sejanus persuaded Tiberius to. . .

3. What project does Livia stop Claudius from completing?

4. What really happened to Postumus?

5. What does Germanicus tell his soldiers about the German fighters?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Livia do to bring Tiberius back to Rome?

2. What does the nobleman predict will happen based on Claudius catching the wolf cub?

3. What argument does Tiberius use with Germanicus to get him to return to Rome?

4. How does Tiberius react to Germanicus's loyal quelling of the troop revolts?

5. How does Livia get rid of Postumus?

6. Why does Livia target Julilla and her unborn child?

7. Why does Livia make sure that Claudius is gone while Germanicus is in Rome?

8. Why does Claudius wait until Germanicus returns to Rome to tell him that Postumus was innocent?

9. Why does Livia not expose Drusus's plan to dethrone Augustus?

10. Why does Augustus refuse to eat or drink anything but bread, water, and figs straight from the tree?

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