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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: "Saturnalia Games".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the Commander of the relief force that has arrived to help Marcus's battalion fight the tribesmen in Chapter 4?
(a) Centurion Clodius Maximus.
(b) Centurion Drusillus.
(c) Centurion Pilus Prior.
(d) Centurion Herpinius.

2. What had an artist of a long-departed garrison etch into the bath-house wall, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A snake.
(c) A dragon.
(d) A wild cat.

3. What does the word "cockcrow" (44) refer to in Chapter 4?
(a) Noon.
(b) Hay.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Dawn.

4. What is initially found to be creating the noise outside of the fort in Chapter 3?
(a) Stray dogs.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Stray cattle.
(d) Wolves.

5. How do the gods show themselves, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) In new moons.
(b) In full moons.
(c) In the sun.
(d) In the stars.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the Romans apply to their enemies' land so that crops would be destroyed?

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

5. What does Marcus suggest Cradoc put up to wager in their bet in Chapter 2?

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