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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 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.

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

3. Who is referred to as the father of all ills in Chapter 1?
(a) Pilum.
(b) Clusium.
(c) Aulus.
(d) Typhon.

4. What had Marcus's father just been appointed as on his last departure, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) The Praetorian Guard.
(b) The First Legion of Egypt.
(c) The Sixth Legion of Egypt.
(d) First Cohort of the Hispania.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the gods show themselves, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

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

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)?

4. Whose name is chanted by Marcus's battalion as they drive at the tribesmen with swords in Chapter 3?

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?

(see the answer key)

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