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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Octavian do when he learns that Caesarion is in Rome?
(a) He asks him to join the Roman army.
(b) He demands that he leave.
(c) He invites him to stay at his home.
(d) He hosts a celebration in his honor.

2. Who is sending supplies and reinforcements to Antony in Syria?
(a) Olympos.
(b) Calpurnia.
(c) Octavia.
(d) Marcus Aurelius.

3. What news does Cleopatra not share with Marc Antony?
(a) She will marry Octavian.
(b) Caesarion is not Caesar's son.
(c) She is pregnant with his child.
(d) She helped plan the plot to kill Caesar.

4. Who treats Antony's major battle injury?
(a) Ain.
(b) Olympos.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Moshe.

5. What does Cleopatra begin to build in Chapter 39?
(a) An army.
(b) Public baths.
(c) A navy.
(d) New statues.

6. Who is Marc Antony's new wife?
(a) Octavia.
(b) Calpurnia.
(c) Cassiopeia.
(d) Phaedra.

7. Who is Marc Antony's wife at this point?
(a) Fulvia.
(b) Maria.
(c) Agricola.
(d) Calpurnia.

8. Cleopatra believes that she is ___________________ mentioned in the Sibylline Leaves.
(a) the Roman Emperor.
(b) the Messiah.
(c) the immortal beloved.
(d) the widow of Caesar.

9. What does Antony ask that Cleopatra bring to him?
(a) Money.
(b) The children.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Horses.

10. An encounter with a soothsayer makes Cleopatra fear that she is to be _______________________.
(a) assassinated before Antony returns.
(b) the Roman Emperor.
(c) the last of the pharaohs to rule Egypt.
(d) the mother of an Emperor.

11. What does Cleopatra initially decide about a relationship with Marc Antony?
(a) He will love her more than she loves him.
(b) She will try to make it last.
(c) She will fall in love with him.
(d) Nothing can come of it.

12. When Cleopatra brings money to Antony, she transports it on _______ ships to minimize the risk of losing it all.
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

13. Marc Antony says that he and Cleopatra are like _____________________.
(a) fire and ice.
(b) their own little kingdom.
(c) oil and vinegar.
(d) birds of a feather.

14. Marc Antony tells Cleopatra that Caesar left her out of his will because ______________________.
(a) she had betrayed him.
(b) she was not a Roman.
(c) she could take care of herself.
(d) she was not his wife.

15. Where does Cleopatra meet Antony in Chapter 54?
(a) Tunisia.
(b) Rome.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Antioch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Antony's army take a large tree stump with them as they leave for battle?

2. Why does Cleopatra send Olympos to Rome?

3. What does Cleopatra consult regarding the famine and plague?

4. What is a common form of execution in Egypt during this time?

5. What does Cleopatra think will be Octavian's motivation to declare war on Egypt?

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