The Eagle of the Ninth Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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The Eagle of the Ninth Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 114 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: "Attack!".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Centurion Drusillus suggest calling in reinforcements from in Chapter 3?
(a) Durinum.
(b) Clusium.
(c) Calleva.
(d) Valencia.

2. What Centurion does the narrator say is overfond of using his vine-staff on his men's backs in Chapter 2?
(a) Centurion Paulus.
(b) Centurion Pilus Prior.
(c) Centurion Aquila.
(d) Centurion Lutorius.

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

4. Near what ancient city did Marcus Flavius Aquila grow up with his mother on the family farm?
(a) Valencia.
(b) Clusium.
(c) Isca.
(d) Calleva.

5. What city now sits at the location of the historic Eburacum?
(a) Canterbury.
(b) London.
(c) York.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Legion "had been Marcus's shining goal for as long as he could remember" (9) according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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. Who is the Cohort Commander that leads the Auxiliaries down the road in Chapter 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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