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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20: "Valedictory".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word "cockcrow" (44) refer to in Chapter 4?
(a) Hay.
(b) Noon.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Dusk.

2. Esca tells Marcus that he told the man who bought their horses that they were sired from whose stables?
(a) Queen Cartimandua's.
(b) Claudius Hieronimianus's.
(c) Perseus's.
(d) Centurion Clodius Maximus's.

3. What is the name of the Legate of the Sixth Legion that visits Uncle Aquila in Chapter 9?
(a) Pilus Prior.
(b) Claudius Hieronimianus.
(c) Centurion Paulus.
(d) Clodius Maximus.

4. What is Cradoc's profession?
(a) He is a jailer.
(b) He is a baker and a money-lender.
(c) He is a hunter and horse-dealer.
(d) He is a bounty hunter.

5. Who commands the fort's one squadron of Dacian Horse, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) Typhon.
(b) Lutorius.
(c) Centurion Pilus Prior.
(d) Drusillus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does the narrator describe Marcus treating frequently in Valentia in Chapter 12?

2. What is Esca's full name?

3. What game does "draughts" refer to?

4. What is the name of the Surgeon of Marcus's garrison that tends to him in Chapter 4?

5. What does Esca replace his and Marcus's horses with in Chapter 17?

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