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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jupiter predict awaits Aeneas in Italy?
(a) A rematch with the same soldiers that destroyed Troy.
(b) A massive war followed by the establishment of a new city and a new way of life.
(c) A happy marriage with Queen Dido.
(d) Death and betrayal.

2. For whom does Aeneas return to Troy to search?
(a) His wife, Creusa.
(b) His dead king Priam's body.
(c) His mother, Venus.
(d) His sworn enemy, Sinon.

3. Who tells Aeneas he is in Carthage?
(a) Dido.
(b) Venus.
(c) Juno.
(d) Achates.

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

5. Who does Dido send to plead with Aeneas?
(a) Her favorite handmaiden.
(b) King Iarbas.
(c) Ascanius.
(d) Anna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Aeneas and his people supposed to settle in Hesperia?

2. What kind of countryman is Achaemenidës?

3. What does Ilioneus ask of Dido?

4. Where do Dido and Aeneas become "married"?

5. What is Aetna?

(see the answer key)

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