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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. Agrippina asks Tiberius for permission to marry who?

2. What does Antonia do after speaking to Caligula about Gemellus's death?

3. What disturbs Claudius about Caligula?

4. What happened to Martina, the chief witness against Piso and Plancina?

5. What does Livia demand Claudius do to Urgulanilla's baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Claudius save the lives of the three noblemen who accompany him to Lyons?

2. How does Antonia discover the plot against Tiberius?

3. How does Caligula wage war on Neptune?

4. Why does Livia play up the rivalry between Sejanus and Castor to Tiberius?

5. Why does Claudius advise Agrippina to make friends with Nerva and Vipsania?

6. What does Claudius hope will happen once Caligula announces his new status as a God?

7. Who are the three main conspirators in the plot to assassinate Caligula?

8. Why does Agrippina become alienated from Claudius?

9. How does Caligula manage to ride a horse across the Bay of Baiæ?

10. Who does Germanicus accuse of murdering him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write about the role of prophecy in the Roman religion.

Essay Topic 3

Is this novel simply an entertaining story, or are there parallels to our modern world? Write an essay identifying and analyzing any parallels you can find, whether social, political, or moral, to our modern world.

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