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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 look for a sign--a giant white sow nursing a litter of piglets.
(c) To watch out for Scylla and Charybdis.
(d) To make prayers and sacrifices to Juno.

2. What does Palinurus' ghost ask Aeneas to do when he returns to the world?
(a) To find and bury his body.
(b) To do anything to make Iulus a king.
(c) Never to let Achates helm the boat.
(d) To avenge his death.

3. Who leads Aeneas to the golden bough?
(a) The Sibyl.
(b) He finds it on his own.
(c) The ghost of Misenus.
(d) Two doves from Venus.

4. Where does Anchises think the voice in the temple is telling them to go build their new city?
(a) Troy.
(b) Midsea.
(c) Crete.
(d) Thrace.

5. How does Dido's ghost react to seeing Aeneas?
(a) She smiles and tells him all is forgiven.
(b) She falls to her knees and pleads with him to take her away with him.
(c) She flees from him and returns to her first husband, Sychaeus.
(d) She reenacts her suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the job of the Sibyl?

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

3. How is Queen Amata turned thoroughly against the idea of Aeneas marrying her daughter Lavinia?

4. How does King Latinus welcome the Trojans to Latinum?

5. Who will bury Palinurus' body?

(see the answer key)

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