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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a javelin that was commonly used by the Roman army and generally was about six feet long?
(a) Pilum.
(b) Arbetum.
(c) Scythe.
(d) Chariot.

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

4. Who does Marcus tell to muster the squadron and hold them in readiness in Chapter 3?
(a) Centurion Lutorius.
(b) Centurion
(c) Centurion
(d) Centurion Esca.

5. What is Cradoc's profession?
(a) He is a bounty hunter.
(b) He is a hunter and horse-dealer.
(c) He is a baker and a money-lender.
(d) He is a jailer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is described in Chapter 2 as "a little red angry man who had missed promotion and grown overfull of his own importance in consequence" (19)?

3. Who does Centurion Quintus Hilarion warn Marcus about in Chapter 1?

4. 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?

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

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