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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator say is always the time to look for trouble in Chapter 2?
(a) A good harvest.
(b) A sun festival.
(c) A bad harvest.
(d) A long rain.

2. What does the Latin word "testudo" refer to?
(a) A horse.
(b) A dragon.
(c) A tortoise.
(d) A snake.

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

4. What had an artist of a long-departed garrison etch into the bath-house wall, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) A snake.
(b) A dragon.
(c) A wild cat.
(d) A wolf.

5. Whose name is chanted by Marcus's battalion as they drive at the tribesmen with swords in Chapter 3?
(a) Tartarus's.
(b) Caesar's.
(c) Marcus's.
(d) Esca's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Marcus's second-in-command?

2. What had Marcus's father just been appointed as on his last departure, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

3. Approximately how many men has Marcus's garrison lost (killed or wounded) by the end of the second attack in Chapter 3?

4. What is Cradoc's profession?

5. What Legion "had been Marcus's shining goal for as long as he could remember" (9) according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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