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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who appears in a dream to warn Aeneas to flee Troy?
(a) Hector.
(b) Venus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Laocoön.

2. What does Aeneas think when he spots Helen while Troy is being destroyed all around them?
(a) He wants to carry her off and marry her.
(b) He wants to save her from her fate.
(c) He feels an impulse to kill her to punish her.
(d) He feels pity for her circumstances.

3. Why did Misenus meet an early death?
(a) He went looking for Palinurus under the water and drowned too.
(b) He pretended he could make music as well as the gods and Triton drowned him.
(c) He looked straight into the Sibyl's eyes.
(d) He ate the fruit of the golden bough.

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

5. Why has Dido turned her face against remarriage?
(a) She does not want any man taking over her kingdom.
(b) She must wait until her sister Anna gets married first.
(c) Her brother killed her last husband.
(d) She is pledged to Diana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Juno say Venus has made Dido fall in love with Aeneas?

2. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?

3. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?

4. What do the crowd of refugees expect from Aeneas?

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

(see the answer key)

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