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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aeneas think when he spots Helen while Troy is being destroyed all around them?
(a) He feels pity for her circumstances.
(b) He wants to carry her off and marry her.
(c) He wants to save her from her fate.
(d) He feels an impulse to kill her to punish her.

2. What meaning does Anchises say the portent of four white horses can have?
(a) Both feast and famine.
(b) Both war and peace.
(c) Both laughter and tears.
(d) Both fame and fortune.

3. Who or what does Venus say is the cause of the fall of Troy?
(a) Priam for being too proud.
(b) The harsh will of the gods.
(c) the Trojans for letting the Danaans trick them.
(d) Helen and Paris for running away together.

4. What does the fake Iulus make Dido forget?
(a) The counsel of her sister.
(b) Her responsibilities as queen.
(c) The memory of her dead husband, Sychaeus.
(d) Her duty to help Aeneas.

5. What tale does Dido want Aeneas to tell?
(a) How Troy fell and how the Trojans traveled to Carthage.
(b) The story of Eros and Psyche.
(c) How his parents met and had hims
(d) What happened to Odysseus during his Odyssey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Aeneas know Antheus, Sergestus, Cloanthus, and Ilioneus?

2. What curse does Celaeno lay on the Trojans?

3. How does Aeneas transport Anchises out of Troy?

4. 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?

5. How did Polydorus die?

(see the answer key)

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