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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the job of the Sibyl?
(a) To guard a special cave entrance.
(b) To give directions on where to go.
(c) To advise people on what jobs to take.
(d) To tell people what will happen.

3. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?
(a) That he needs her help to find his father's ghost.
(b) That he can bring her back to life now.
(c) That she should have waited becauase he was coming back for her.
(d) That he left her lands against his will.

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

5. What does Anchises show Aeneas in the underworld?
(a) Scenes of what the deities are doing in Olympus.
(b) Scenes from the past history of Troy.
(c) Scenes of his future descendants in Italy.
(d) Scenes of what his followers are doing at the present moment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nisus surrender to the Rutulians?

2. Why are Aeneas and his people supposed to settle in Hesperia?

3. Where do malefactors live in the underworld?

4. What meaning does Anchises say the portent of four white horses can have?

5. What mission do Nisus and Euryalus take on?

(see the answer key)

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