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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do seers say it means when Lavinia's hair glows with divine fire?
(a) That she be taken up to Olympus to wed a god.
(b) That she is destined to become the next Sibyl.
(c) That she will die by fire.
(d) That she will be famous and receive glory, but also bring war on her people.

2. How is Turnus spurred to make war on both King Latinus and the Trojans?
(a) Vulcan supplies him with weapons that cannot be defeated.
(b) Bacchus intoxicates his mind.
(c) Allecto plants a smoking torch in his body that fills him with a lust for war.
(d) Jupiter visits him and promises to help him defeat them both.

3. Who does Dido send to plead with Aeneas?
(a) Anna.
(b) Ascanius.
(c) King Iarbas.
(d) Her favorite handmaiden.

4. Which of the following is NOT something Helenus advises Aeneas and his followers to do?
(a) To head for the shoreline to the west.
(b) To watch out for Scylla and Charybdis.
(c) To look for a sign--a giant white sow nursing a litter of piglets.
(d) To make prayers and sacrifices to Juno.

5. What does Sinon say will happen if the Trojans violate the wooden horse?
(a) They will win the war against the Danaans.
(b) They will face the wrath of the goddess Minerva.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They will win the favor of the god Pallas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Jupiter send to talk to Aeneas?

3. What atrocity does Pyrrhus commit in front of Priam?

4. What meaning does Anchises say the portent of four white horses can have?

5. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?

(see the answer key)

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