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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) Tartarus.
(c) In the River Styx.
(d) In the Blessed Groves.

2. What is Aetna?
(a) A volcano.
(b) A huge waterfall.
(c) A geyser that sprays from the ground.
(d) A large river.

3. Who will bury Palinurus' body?
(a) Iulus.
(b) Somnus.
(c) People who live near where his body washed up.
(d) Aeneas.

4. Who is Andromache's new husband?
(a) Pyrrhus.
(b) Helenus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Orestes.

5. 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 smiles and tells him all is forgiven.
(d) She flees from him and returns to her first husband, Sychaeus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who dies at the end of Book 3?

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

4. What is Iulus' first feat of arms?

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

(see the answer key)

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