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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 does Marcus suggest Cradoc put up to wager in their bet in Chapter 2?
(a) A hunting spear.
(b) A silver brooch.
(c) His horses.
(d) His cloak.

2. What city now sits at the location of the historic Eburacum?
(a) York.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Canterbury.

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

4. Who is Marcus's second-in-command?
(a) Centurion Drusillus.
(b) Centurion Esca.
(c) Centurion Paulus.
(d) Centurion Pilus Prior.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of war does Centurion Quintus Hilarion say is "ever the most deadly kind, for it recks nothing of consequences" (15) in Chapter 1?

2. How do the gods show themselves, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

3. Approximately how long should it take reinforcements to reach Marcus's garrison after the smoke signal has been sent up in Chapter 3?

4. What does the word "Tophet" (40) refer to in Chapter 3?

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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