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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Iulus' first feat of arms?
(a) He shoots Remulus through the head with an arrow.
(b) He fights Turnus with an ax.
(c) He uses his shield to protect another soldier from a rain of arrows.
(d) He cuts down with his sword a Rutulian trying to climb into the Trojan camp.

2. What does Aeneas ask the gods through the Sibyl?
(a) He wants revenge on those who ruined Troy.
(b) He wants to settle peacefully in Latium.
(c) He wants help rebuilding the original Troy.
(d) He wants his father brought back to life.

3. What problem does Turnus face when he tries to attack the Trojan camp?
(a) The Trojans hole up in their camp and won't come out.
(b) He can't locate the camp because the Trojans have moved it.
(c) He is vastly outnumbered by the Trojan fighters.
(d) King Latinus interferes and stops him.

4. Who does Anchises predict will bring and Age of Gold to Latium?
(a) Aeneas.
(b) Romulus.
(c) Silvius.
(d) Caesar Augustus.

5. How did Polydorus die?
(a) Killed in a battle during the siege of Troy.
(b) Murdered by his host, the Thracian king, for the gold he held.
(c) Sickened by a terrible plague.
(d) Attacked and smothered by plants.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nisus die?

2. Why did Misenus meet an early death?

3. Why does Nisus surrender to the Rutulians?

4. What happens to everything the Harpies touch?

5. Who laments that only the head of Euryalus is brought back (on a spear) by the Rutulians?

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