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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aeneas promise to do if the gods grant his wish?
(a) He will name his new city after Jupiter.
(b) He will build a temple to Phoebus and Diana of the Crossroads.
(c) He will make a sacrifice to Juno.
(d) He will honor his mother Venus more.

2. Which of the following must Aeneas do to enter the underworld?
(a) He must pick the golden bough.
(b) He must find and follow Orpheus down.
(c) He must wait for Venus to come take him.
(d) He must wrestle the gatekeeper and win.

3. What betrays the presence of Euryalus to the enemy?
(a) A snapping twig under his feet.
(b) The gleam of his helmet in the moonlight.
(c) The noise of the clanking of the booty he has taken from Turnus' camp.
(d) Allecto directing their attention to him.

4. Why did Misenus meet an early death?
(a) He ate the fruit of the golden bough.
(b) He went looking for Palinurus under the water and drowned too.
(c) He looked straight into the Sibyl's eyes.
(d) He pretended he could make music as well as the gods and Triton drowned him.

5. What kind of countryman is Achaemenidës?
(a) Trojan.
(b) Ithacan.
(c) Etruscan.
(d) Sicilian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who blinded Polyphemus?

3. What happens to the Trojans' ships when Turnus tries to burn them?

4. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?

5. What does Palinurus' ghost ask Aeneas to do when he returns to the world?

(see the answer key)

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