Q 01/05
A) Tiberius Claudius Drusus
B) Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus
C) Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
D) Marcus Salvius Otho
Answer · why
He was born at Antium, modern Anzio, in December AD 37.
Q 02/05
A) Livia Drusilla
B) Valeria Messalina
C) Antonia Minor
D) Agrippina the Younger
Answer · why
His father reportedly said any child of theirs would have a detestable nature and become a public danger.
Q 03/05
A) Claudius
B) Tiberius
C) Caligula
D) Augustus
Answer · why
That uncle exiled Nero's mother to an island and seized the boy's paternal inheritance.
Q 04/05
A) Claudius
B) Tiberius
C) Galba
D) Caligula
Answer · why
Gold coins were struck to mark the adoption; Nero was eleven when his mother remarried.
Q 05/05
A) 16
B) 12
C) 10
D) 14
Answer · why
His first speech to the Senate, promising to follow the Augustan model, was written by his tutor.
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