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

2. 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?
(a) The First Senate Guard.
(b) The Garden Guard.
(c) The First Cohort of the Hispania.
(d) The Praetorian Guard.

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

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

5. 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) "Global war."
(b) "Holy war."
(c) "Direct-contact war."
(d) "War of revenge."

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the novel refers to a civil officer or lay judge that administers the law?

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?

3. What Centurion does the narrator say is overfond of using his vine-staff on his men's backs in Chapter 2?

4. What does Marcus offer in a bet to Cradoc in Chapter 2?

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

(see the answer key)

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