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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 the crowd of refugees expect from Aeneas?
(a) They want him to apologize for letting Troy fall.
(b) They want him to lead them in a prayer of thanks for their escape.
(c) They want him to train them in battle so they can fight the Danaans better.
(d) They want him to lead them by sea to new lands.

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

3. How does Aeneas transport Anchises out of Troy?
(a) On a stretcher after the Danaans wound him.
(b) On his back.
(c) By pulling him along by the hand.
(d) In a wheeled cart.

4. Whom does Jupiter send to talk to Aeneas?
(a) Venus.
(b) Cupid.
(c) Mercury.
(d) Juno.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?

2. Which of the following is NOT an effect of Dido's love for Aeneas?

3. Why has Dido turned her face against remarriage?

4. How do the Danaans get inside the walls of Troy?

5. What does the soothsayer say it means when bees cluster together and weigh down the branch of King Latinus' laurel tree?

(see the answer key)

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