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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 kind of war does Centurion Quintus Hilarion say is "ever the most deadly kind, for it recks nothing of consequences" (15) in Chapter 1?
(a) "Direct-contact war."
(b) "War of revenge."
(c) "Global war."
(d) "Holy war."

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

3. 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)?
(a) Esca.
(b) Marcus.
(c) The Duty Centuron.
(d) The Quartermaster.

4. What rank are Legion Commanders almost always, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Emperor's rank.
(b) Layman's rank.
(c) Senator's rank.
(d) Governor's rank.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What city now sits at the location of the historic Eburacum?

4. Whose name is chanted by Marcus's battalion as they drive at the tribesmen with swords in Chapter 3?

5. What is initially found to be creating the noise outside of the fort in Chapter 3?

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