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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the plague that descends on the new city Aeneas founds at Pergamum tell the settlers?
(a) That this is the wrong coast to settle and that they should leave for other lands.
(b) That they are being punished for not defending Troy better.
(c) That the settlers must practice better hygiene.
(d) That the gods wish to make the city stronger by weeding out the weak.

2. How is Anchises spending his time in the underworld?
(a) He is studying the futures and fates of his descendants.
(b) He is trading stories with the founders of Troy.
(c) He is resting peacefully.
(d) He is lamenting his fate.

3. Why are Aeneas and his people supposed to settle in Hesperia?
(a) It is their true home, the land from which the forefathers of their people came.
(b) The Greeks will never be able to find and attack them there.
(c) They only have enough food to make it that far.
(d) It is Venus' land and she promises it to them.

4. Evander, unaware, is the founder of which of the following?
(a) The first military school in Italy.
(b) Rome's great citadel.
(c) The sacred wood of Argiletum.
(d) The Lupercal grotto.

5. Who blinded Polyphemus?
(a) Orestes.
(b) the Furies.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Ulysses and his crewmen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Danaans get inside the walls of Troy?

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

3. Who leads Aeneas to the golden bough?

4. Who tells Aeneas he is in Carthage?

5. Why does King Iarbas pray to Jove/Jupiter?

(see the answer key)

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