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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not an excuse Aeneas offers to Dido for why he must leave her?
(a) He is not being deceitful because he never entered a pact of marriage with her.
(b) His men cannot protect her and Carthage adequately.
(c) His fate, oracles, and dreams all tell him he must go found a city.
(d) A messenger from Jupiter commands him to go against his will.

2. Why did Dido's people take on a peaceful mood toward Aeneas' people?
(a) They were visited by Mercury.
(b) Queen Dido commanded them to welcome all new visitors.
(c) They had heard great things about the Trojans from the Greeks.
(d) They were well known for always welcoming new people.

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

4. With whose funeral does Book VII open?
(a) Misenus.
(b) Caieta.
(c) Palinurus.
(d) Anchises.

5. When Dido sees Aeneas' men readying their ships to sail, for what does she plead?
(a) For Aeneas to wait to sail until the weather is better.
(b) That they sabotage the ships to keep Aeneas in Carthage.
(c) That they take her sister Anna with them as a guide.
(d) For them to leave plans with her people for how to build such wonderful ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not an effect that Dido says has been caused by her love affair with Aeneas?

2. What important things has Aeneas carried with him from Troy?

3. Why does Juno say Venus has made Dido fall in love with Aeneas?

4. Whom does Jupiter send to talk to Aeneas?

5. How does Aeneas put out the burning Trojan ships after the Trojan women set them on fire?

(see the answer key)

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