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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) Mitigator.
(b) Magistrate.
(c) Articulator.
(d) Embezzler.

2. What Legion "had been Marcus's shining goal for as long as he could remember" (9) according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) A British Legion.
(b) An Egyptian Legion.
(c) A German Legion.
(d) A Greek Legion.

3. What does Marcus offer in a bet to Cradoc in Chapter 2?
(a) A ring.
(b) A bird.
(c) A brooch.
(d) A pocketwatch.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had an artist of a long-departed garrison etch into the bath-house wall, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

2. What is the name of the deep abyss used as a dungeon of torment from ancient Greek mythology that is referred to in Chapter 3?

3. What rank are Legion Commanders almost always, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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

5. To what god does Marcus pray in Chapter 3?

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