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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 does Postumus send word to Claudius that he is alive?
(a) He asks an old soldier to deliver a verbal message.
(b) He hires a prostitute to pass a letter to Claudius.
(c) He sends Claudius a book with a hidden message in it.
(d) He encloses a note in a package of fruit.

2. Who kills the German soldier who offered to fight "any Roman?"
(a) Roach
(b) Augustus
(c) Cassius Chærea
(d) Germanicus

3. The key to Livia and Augustus's higher cipher was found in the first chapter of. . .
(a) The Iliad.
(b) Virgil's Æneid.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) Ovid's Love Poems.

4. What does Claudius shout when he is told about Augustus's death?
(a) Poison is Queen!
(b) That's it! I'm a dead man!
(c) Long live the Republic!
(d) Poor Postumus!

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The senator Haterius was known for his skill in:

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

3. Who really orders the death of Postumus after Augustus dies?

4. Why does Claudius become his mother's guardian?

5. Claudius is the biological grandson of:

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Claudius related to Augustus Caesar?

3. How does Germanicus keep the Roman regiments from revolting?

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

5. What criticism does Pollio make about Livy?

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

7. Why is Germanicus's support necessary to redeem Postumus 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. How does Claudius investigate Pollio's charge that Livia murdered his father?

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