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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 pretended he could make music as well as the gods and Triton drowned him.
(d) He looked straight into the Sibyl's eyes.

3. What meaning does Anchises say the portent of four white horses can have?
(a) Both war and peace.
(b) Both fame and fortune.
(c) Both feast and famine.
(d) Both laughter and tears.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who laments that only the head of Euryalus is brought back (on a spear) by the Rutulians?

3. What does Anchises show Aeneas in the underworld?

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

5. Who dies at the end of Book 3?

(see the answer key)

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