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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Caligula's real name?

2. What is Claudius's full name?

3. What kind of animal does Livia compare Claudius to?

4. Who rules Rome after the death of Mark Antony?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Claudius describe his father's relationship to his troops?

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

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

9. How is Claudius related to Augustus Caesar?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did the Roman Republic become a dictatorship? Research and write a paper describing the transition from one system to the other.

Essay Topic 2

Claudius divides his family into "good" Claudians and "bad" Claudians. What drove the "bad" Claudians? Write a paper addressing the question: Did madness run in the Claudian family?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that addresses the differences (or similarities) between marriage and divorce in Ancient Rome and in our modern world.

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