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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vitellius is admired by many of the previous Caesars for his skill at what?
(a) Art.
(b) Chariot driving.
(c) Music.
(d) Knife fighting.

2. Who is believed to have pinched Galba's cheek when he was a child and said, "you too will taste a little power child?"
(a) Nero.
(b) Augustus.
(c) Claudius.
(d) Julius.

3. What is one of Galba's two main characteristics?
(a) Brutality.
(b) Absurdity.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) Loyalty.

4. Who is Rubria?
(a) Nero's sister.
(b) A Vestal Virgin.
(c) Nero's mother.
(d) A priestess.

5. In what month is Otho born?
(a) July.
(b) April.
(c) September.
(d) May.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Galba choose as an adopted son instead of Otho?

2. Until Nero's death, Galba never went anywhere without what?

3. The soldiers who are with Otho when he kills himself end up doing what?

4. What does Nero have which makes it hard for him to perform?

5. The soldiers who kiss Otho when he dies, say that Otho was the ________ man they had ever known.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Otho's friends do when Galba and Piso are killed?

2. What is Galba given for his military achievements in Africa.

3. What happens during the eighth month of his reign?

4. How did Vitellius kill a person who asked him for water?

5. Why does the population have a good opinion of Vitellius?

6. What does Otho do to drunken wanderers?

7. How did Vitellius secure his father's first advancement?

8. When do Vespasian's feeling about being unprepared to lead go away?

9. Where do Otho's troops think they are going to, when he sends them out of Rome?

10. When does Galba have his first public appointment?

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