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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. Who is Agrippa?
(a) A longtime friend and advisor to Augustus
(b) Marcellus's father
(c) Livia's first husband
(d) Tiberius's first wife

2. Who did Tiberius send to quell the mutinies in the Balkan forces?
(a) Germanicus
(b) Claudius
(c) Castor
(d) Cassius

3. Who offers to capture Postumus for Tiberius?
(a) Livia
(b) Crispus
(c) Sejanus
(d) Nerva

4. How does Antonia regard her son, Claudius?
(a) She favors him.
(b) She dotes on him.
(c) She despises him.
(d) She disowns him.

5. Who is Flavius?
(a) A former general with the German army.
(b) The brother of the German general, Hermann.
(c) A slave who was captured in Germany.
(d) Germanicus's second-in-command.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Germanicus ask Claudius to do for him?

2. How do Livia and Urgulania describe the marriage of Claudius and Urgulanilla?

3. Which senator challenges Tiberius's reluctance to accept power?

4. Why was Postumus not arrested at Ostia?

5. What happens to Julilla after Livia exposes her sexual affairs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Claudius find out that his letters to Germanicus are being intercepted?

2. What criticism does Pollio make about Livy?

3. What three things does Antonia tell Claudius are impossible?

4. Why is Germanicus's support necessary to redeem Postumus in Rome?

5. Why does Germanicus send his wife Agrippina, back to Rome?

6. What does Pollio imply about the death of Claudius's grandfather?

7. How does Claudius investigate Pollio's charge that Livia murdered his father?

8. What book does Claudius write after finishing his history on Augustus's religious reforms?

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

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

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