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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: "Attack!".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Centurion Drusillus suggest calling in reinforcements from in Chapter 3?
(a) Calleva.
(b) Valencia.
(c) Clusium.
(d) Durinum.

2. What is initially found to be creating the noise outside of the fort in Chapter 3?
(a) Wolves.
(b) Stray dogs.
(c) Stray cattle.
(d) Chickens.

3. What term refers to the elite unit of the Imperial Roman Army whose members serve as personal bodyguards to officials such as generals or governors?
(a) The First Senate Guard.
(b) The First Cohort of the Hispania.
(c) The Praetorian Guard.
(d) The Garden Guard.

4. What word from the novel refers to a civil officer or lay judge that administers the law?
(a) Mitigator.
(b) Articulator.
(c) Magistrate.
(d) Embezzler.

5. Who commands the fort's one squadron of Dacian Horse, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) Typhon.
(b) Centurion Pilus Prior.
(c) Lutorius.
(d) Drusillus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Centurion Quintus Hilarion's home?

2. When does the narrator say is always the time to look for trouble in Chapter 2?

3. Who is referred to as the father of all ills in Chapter 1?

4. What word refers to an ancient Roman silver coin, originally worth ten asses?

5. Where was Marcus sent upon arriving in Britain in late autumn, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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