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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 Claudius think is the reason for the low marriage rate?
(a) Marrying the wrong family risks death
(b) Single women have more rights
(c) There are no pretty girls left
(d) Prostitutes are cheaper and nicer

2. What does Pollio bet Livy that Claudius is reading?
(a) Love poems
(b) Livia's book
(c) Trash
(d) The Classics

3. What title does Tiberius refuse to use in Rome?
(a) Augustus
(b) Chief Ponticate
(c) Emperor
(d) Protector of the People

4. What happens to Julilla after Livia exposes her sexual affairs?
(a) She is sentenced to death.
(b) She joins the Vestals.
(c) She marries Claudius.
(d) She is banished.

5. Why does Augustus move the sword-fighters out of the city?
(a) He is afraid they might lead rebellions.
(b) They are expected to defend the outer boroughs.
(c) They are needed to help transport corn shipments.
(d) So that smaller cities can enjoy their shows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Caligula's real name?

2. What does Livia demand Tiberius to do with the letter from his brother, Drusus?

3. Who is Agrippa?

4. Who was the Crocodile?

5. What did Augustus tell Claudius just a month before he died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the book that Livia writes

2. How does Claudius feel about his son, Drusillus?

3. How is Claudius related to Augustus Caesar?

4. Why is Rome so vulnerable to attack by the German forces after Varus dies?

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

6. What is deification?

7. Explain the meaning of the prophecy that the Oracle Sibyl told to Claudius?

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

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

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

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