Question 1
One telling change in literature of the Silver Age came in response to an increasingly irritable imperial rule. What was it?
A. a lack of writing on contemporary affairs and recent history
B. an emphasis on comedies
C. many contemporary biographies of the emperor
D. political poetry
E. the development of the farce
Question 2
The troubled succession of the early Roman Empire was exemplified in the year 69 when ________.
A. Claudius had a nervous breakdown
B. the Germans attacked
C. four different men served as emperor
D. Trajan took power by force
E. Marcus Aurelius left Rome in disgust
Question 3
After the Praetorian Guard killed the emperor Caligula and installed a frightened Claudius on the throne, it was clear that the ultimate arbiter of leadership in imperial Rome was ________.
A. democratic elections
B. divination by priests
C. Etruscan tradition
D. foreign models
E. military power
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A Tibetan wolf killed in 1938. Note the proportionately short legs
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