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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aeneas promise to do if the gods grant his wish?
(a) He will make a sacrifice to Juno.
(b) He will build a temple to Phoebus and Diana of the Crossroads.
(c) He will honor his mother Venus more.
(d) He will name his new city after Jupiter.

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

4. How does Dido's ghost react to seeing Aeneas?
(a) She falls to her knees and pleads with him to take her away with him.
(b) She reenacts her suicide.
(c) She flees from him and returns to her first husband, Sychaeus.
(d) She smiles and tells him all is forgiven.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nisus die?

2. What happens to everything the Harpies touch?

3. Who leads Aeneas to the golden bough?

4. Who is Andromache's new husband?

5. What is Aetna?

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