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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: "Tribune Placidus".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 9 means a feeling of unease or embarrassment?
(a) Discomfiture.
(b) Disillusion.
(c) Indemnity.
(d) Detraction.

2. How long has it been since Marcus's surgery in the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Eight months.
(c) Six months.
(d) Two months.

3. What does Esca describe the passing Legion carrying as they marched North in Chapter 6?
(a) A golden saber.
(b) A golden eagle.
(c) An emperor.
(d) A painted flag.

4. Who is the Tribune that Esca describes getting into a quarrel with at the wolf-hunt in Chapter 6?
(a) Lucius Urbanus.
(b) Placidus.
(c) Procyon.
(d) Herpinius.

5. Galarius claims in Chapter 8 that an oculist's craft is one for a follower of whom?
(a) Aesculapius.
(b) Perseus.
(c) Procyon.
(d) Tartarus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Latin word "testudo" refer to?

3. Who is referred to as the father of all ills in Chapter 1?

4. What is the name of the book that Uncle Aquila has been writing for ten years, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?

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

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