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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Portents: Chapters 16 - 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Gordianus and Bethesda return to their house, what does he do?
(a) Goes to bed.
(b) Eats dinner.
(c) Goes out to hire a guard.
(d) Leaves again to question Roscia in private.

2. What did the second message in blood say?
(a) "The fool disobeyed. Now he is dead. Let a wiser man take a holiday come the holy Ides of May."
(b) "Beware the Ides of May."
(c) "Seek revenge and not justice."
(d) "If you do not cease this folly, continued plagues shall come down on you."

3. After talking with Carus, Gordianus goes to the home of ______________.
(a) Some other Roscii family members.
(b) Felix and Chrestus.
(c) Nobody. He goes to an inn.
(d) Titus Megarus.

4. Gordianus discovers, upon returning to his house after a day of investigating, that_______________________.
(a) His slave has been killed.
(b) Cicero has fired him.
(c) His home is burned down.
(d) His home has been broken into.

5. After the incident with the guards, Gordianus and Bethesda flee to_____________.
(a) A neighbor's house.
(b) Cicero's house.
(c) The country.
(d) Caecilia's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carus reveal to Gordianus?

2. During their investigation at the House of Swans, Gordianus is told that Elena______________________.

3. Sextus Roscius (pater) does what for a living?

4. Gordianus asks a boy for directions to the home of Sextus Roscius, and he finds out ______________.

5. What did Gordianus figure out from the two attacks on his house?

(see the answer key)

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