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

2. Who was the Crocodile?
(a) A helpful librarian at the temple of Apollo in Rome.
(b) One of the Roman Guards at the Imperial palace.
(c) One of the men who guarded Postumus on the island.
(d) A freedman who had worked for Postumus's father.

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

4. Who does Actë engage to replace herself as Claudius's mistress?
(a) Calpurnia
(b) Æmillia
(c) Urgulanilla
(d) Agrippanilla

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Claudius meet Assinius Pollio?

2. What is Claudius's full name?

3. What title does Tiberius refuse to use in Rome?

4. What attitude does Livia take towards Postumus?

5. When Tiberius adopts Germanicus, Claudius's brother is brought into which family?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Claudius describe Urgulanilla?

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

3. Describe the book that Livia writes

4. How does Livia get rid of Postumus?

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

6. What is deification?

7. Why is it better for Claudius that Livia thinks he is an idiot?

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

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

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

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