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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do malefactors live in the underworld?
(a) Elysium.
(b) In the Blessed Groves.
(c) In the River Styx.
(d) Tartarus.

2. What does Virgil do to prepare to talk about the warfare between the Trojans and the Rutulians?
(a) Provides the reader with information about the ancestries of the major warriors.
(b) Calls on the Muse Calliope for help.
(c) Blames Juno for the upcoming bloodshed.
(d) Chastizes Allecto for helping Juno start this war.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the Sibyl NOT predict awaits Aeneas where he is going?

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

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

4. What problem does Turnus face when he tries to attack the Trojan camp?

5. Which of the following must Aeneas do to enter the underworld?

(see the answer key)

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