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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Misenus meet an early death?
(a) He went looking for Palinurus under the water and drowned too.
(b) He ate the fruit of the golden bough.
(c) He looked straight into the Sibyl's eyes.
(d) He pretended he could make music as well as the gods and Triton drowned him.

2. Of what is Helenus' city a replica?
(a) Crete.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Troy.
(d) Italy.

3. Whom does Helenus say Aeneas should visit for advice?
(a) The sibyl of Cumae.
(b) Andromache.
(c) Scylla.
(d) Charybdis.

4. What does Virgil do to prepare to talk about the warfare between the Trojans and the Rutulians?
(a) Chastizes Allecto for helping Juno start this war.
(b) Blames Juno for the upcoming bloodshed.
(c) Calls on the Muse Calliope for help.
(d) Provides the reader with information about the ancestries of the major warriors.

5. Who will bury Palinurus' body?
(a) Somnus.
(b) Aeneas.
(c) People who live near where his body washed up.
(d) Iulus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aeneas ask the gods through the Sibyl?

2. What happens every time Aeneas tries to tear a branch from a tree in Thrace to construct a roof for the altar of his new colony?

3. Where do malefactors live in the underworld?

4. Who is a figure from Greek and Roman mythology NOT depicted in the temple of Apollo?

5. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?

(see the answer key)

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