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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. Where has Uncle Aquila invited Marcus to spend his leave with him in Chapter 1?
(a) Calleva.
(b) Clusium.
(c) Isca.
(d) Durinum.

2. Where is Centurion Quintus Hilarion's home?
(a) Isca.
(b) Durinum.
(c) Clusium.
(d) Calleva.

3. 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 dragon.
(c) A snake.
(d) A wild cat.

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. Where was Marcus sent upon arriving in Britain in late autumn, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Isca.
(b) Essex.
(c) London.
(d) Valencia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Marcus's second-in-command?

2. What is the name of Uncle Aquila's old Greek body-slave?

3. Who is Marcus's successor that is sent in from Isca in Chapter 4?

4. 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?

5. What bird does Marcus observe when he first awakens in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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