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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dido's ghost react to seeing Aeneas?
(a) She reenacts her suicide.
(b) She falls to her knees and pleads with him to take her away with him.
(c) She flees from him and returns to her first husband, Sychaeus.
(d) She smiles and tells him all is forgiven.

2. Who will bury Palinurus' body?
(a) Somnus.
(b) People who live near where his body washed up.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Iulus.

3. What is Aetna?
(a) A huge waterfall.
(b) A large river.
(c) A volcano.
(d) A geyser that sprays from the ground.

4. Who laments that only the head of Euryalus is brought back (on a spear) by the Rutulians?
(a) Euryalus' sister.
(b) Aeneas.
(c) Iulus.
(d) Euryalus' mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anchises think the voice in the temple is telling them to go build their new city?

2. Who is Andromache's new husband?

3. 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?

4. What does Anchises show Aeneas in the underworld?

5. Who is sent by Juno to Turnus at the beginning of Book IX to tell him now is the time to attack the Trojans?

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