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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Cleopatra received by the people of Rome?
(a) She is popular.
(b) She is exiled.
(c) She is ignored.
(d) She is unpopular.

2. What element of Roman life intrigues Cleopatra when she tours the city?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Hot and cold running water.
(c) Hanging gardens.
(d) Statuary.

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

4. What does Cleopatra give Caesar at their first formal meeting in Rome?
(a) The two pirates.
(b) A chest of gold.
(c) Treasure maps.
(d) A cage of parrots.

5. What does Pompey the Great say about the seven-year-old Cleopatra?
(a) She has eyes as black as midnight.
(b) She is an enchanting child.
(c) She is impudent.
(d) She is a special joy.

6. Why does Cleopatra feel vulnerable where Caesar is concerned?
(a) She is not sure if he loves her like she loves him.
(b) She does not feel beautiful around the Roman women.
(c) She feels uncomfortable around Calpurnia.
(d) She thinks he may want to imprison her.

7. Why does Cleopatra decide to leave Caesar's celebration?
(a) Caesarion gets ill.
(b) She gets sunstroke by being outside too long.
(c) The crowd jeers at her.
(d) People are killed in mock battles.

8. Cleopatra's husband, Ptolemy, is more like a/an _____________ than a husband.
(a) servant.
(b) uncle.
(c) child.
(d) enemy.

9. Cleopatra asks Olympos to treat a woman who _________________.
(a) almost drowned.
(b) has lost her eyesight.
(c) has leprosy.
(d) has cancer.

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

11. What Egyptian words do Caesar and Cleopatra speak in front of a priest at Philae?
(a) Unification strategies.
(b) Marriage vows.
(c) A truce.
(d) Battle plans.

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

13. Who does Cleopatra choose to oversee her wardrobe?
(a) Omorose.
(b) Charmian.
(c) Monifa.
(d) Zahra.

14. There is an upheaval in the government as some call for Caesar _____________________.
(a) to accept a higher power within government.
(b) go into exile.
(c) to banish Cleopatra.
(d) to abdicate.

15. As a child, Cleopatra is taken to the throne of ______________ and told that she is her daughter.
(a) Osiris.
(b) Isis.
(c) Nut.
(d) Ma'at.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true about Cleopatra's sister, Berenice?

2. What is the nickname of Cleopatra's son?

3. Cleopatra's pregnancy ends in _________________.

4. Where do Cleopatra and Caesar travel?

5. Who accompanies Cleopatra and Pompey on a tour of the city?

(see the answer keys)

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