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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Cleopatra's men do with the two pirates they capture?
(a) Throw them overboard.
(b) Poison them.
(c) Hold them to take to Caesar.
(d) Torture them.

2. What does Caesar say he will build along the Tiber?
(a) Gardens.
(b) Cities.
(c) More bridges.
(d) Egyptian buildings.

3. To what does Caesar change Arinsoe's sentence?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Exile.
(c) Life imprisonment.
(d) Death.

4. Who accompanies Cleopatra and Pompey on a tour of the city?
(a) Zahur.
(b) Sekani.
(c) Ngozi.
(d) Olympos.

5. Cleopatra has to travel to _____________ to discredit a man claiming to be the elder Ptolemy.
(a) Nubia.
(b) India.
(c) Gaul.
(d) Nigeria.

6. Cleopatra's younger stepsister is named _________________.
(a) Arisonoe.
(b) Moswen.
(c) Nubia.
(d) Kesi.

7. Who accompanies Cleopatra to retrieve Caesar's body?
(a) Ptolemy.
(b) Marc Antony.
(c) Calpurnia.
(d) Octavian.

8. What nationality is Pompey the Great?
(a) Spanish.
(b) French.
(c) Roman.
(d) Egyptian.

9. What news does Cleopatra have for Caesar?
(a) She is dying.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is giving up the throne.
(d) She is getting married.

10. Cleopatra hears about a new law allowing Caesar ____________________.
(a) to send foreigners into exile.
(b) to have multiple wives.
(c) to abdicate.
(d) to recognize Caesarion legally.

11. Why does Caesar arrive in Alexandria?
(a) To take a holiday.
(b) To revenge Pompey's death.
(c) To learn the language.
(d) To conquer the land.

12. How do Caesar and Cleopatra travel?
(a) By barge.
(b) By horseback.
(c) By camels.
(d) By wagons.

13. Cleopatra learns that her sister, _______________, is being held in the Tullianum Prison.
(a) Ain.
(b) Arinsoe.
(c) Nefertiti.
(d) Eboni.

14. There is an uprising with Arisonoe and ______________ at its heart.
(a) Mardian.
(b) Ptolemy.
(c) Ain.
(d) Olympos.

15. Why does Cleopatra think that Caesar has brought her to Rome?
(a) To kill Caesarion.
(b) For some personal political gain.
(c) To imprison her.
(d) To marry her.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age does Cleopatra realize that she could be forced to marry and bear children?

2. Who does Cleopatra choose to be her personal physician?

3. How old is Caesar at this time?

4. What is the message of a letter Caesar sends to Cleopatra?

5. How does Calpurnia feel about Caesar's indiscretions?

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