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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 flees from him and returns to her first husband, Sychaeus.
(b) She reenacts her suicide.
(c) She smiles and tells him all is forgiven.
(d) She falls to her knees and pleads with him to take her away with him.

2. Who is sent by Juno to Turnus at the beginning of Book IX to tell him now is the time to attack the Trojans?
(a) Allecto.
(b) Iris.
(c) Juno goes herself.
(d) Neptune.

3. What happens to everything the Harpies touch?
(a) It becomes covered in filth.
(b) It becomes theirs forever.
(c) It disappears.
(d) It turns to gold.

4. How did Polydorus die?
(a) Killed in a battle during the siege of Troy.
(b) Attacked and smothered by plants.
(c) Sickened by a terrible plague.
(d) Murdered by his host, the Thracian king, for the gold he held.

5. What curse does Celaeno lay on the Trojans?
(a) That they will be shipwrecked every time they try to set sail.
(b) That they will wander the sea forever without finding a new place to settle.
(c) That they will be turned into Harpies as well.
(d) That the Trojans will never build their new city until they have experienced famine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Aeneas ask the gods through the Sibyl?

3. Who finds his or her way inside the Trojan camp at the end of Book IX and begins to massacre Trojans?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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