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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who travels with Aeneas to check out the place where they have landed?
(a) Pallas.
(b) Achates.
(c) Venus.
(d) Anchises.

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

3. What happens when souls are destined to be reborn in a second body?
(a) They must craft new bodies for themselves.
(b) They must drink from the water of Lethe to forget their memories.
(c) They must petition the kind of the underworld to be reborn.
(d) They must sneak past Charon.

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

5. What portent appears relating to Iulus?
(a) A cloud of smoke that covers up his face.
(b) A snake that wraps around his ankle.
(c) A tongue of flame on his head.
(d) A bird that lands on his left shoulder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What danger do Aeneas and his men face by Aetna?

2. Who dies at the end of Book 3?

3. Who is the deity in charge of marriage?

4. For whom does Aeneas return to Troy to search?

5. Why does Palinurus fall overboard?

(see the answer key)

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