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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 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) Chastizes Allecto for helping Juno start this war.
(c) Calls on the Muse Calliope for help.
(d) Blames Juno for the upcoming bloodshed.

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

3. Why are Aeneas and his people supposed to settle in Hesperia?
(a) It is their true home, the land from which the forefathers of their people came.
(b) It is Venus' land and she promises it to them.
(c) The Greeks will never be able to find and attack them there.
(d) They only have enough food to make it that far.

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

5. Of what is Helenus' city a replica?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Italy.
(c) Crete.
(d) Troy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Anchises spending his time in the underworld?

2. 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?

3. Whom does Helenus say Aeneas should visit for advice?

4. On what do the gods take oaths that they fear to break?

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

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