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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 must Aeneas do to enter the underworld?
(a) He must wrestle the gatekeeper and win.
(b) He must wait for Venus to come take him.
(c) He must pick the golden bough.
(d) He must find and follow Orpheus down.

2. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?
(a) He wants Aeneas to stop praying to him.
(b) He wants Aeneas to do the right thing and marry Dido properly.
(c) He wants Aeneas to help Dido build Carthage into the finest city in the world.
(d) For Aeneas to stop being distracted by Dido and her city and go build his own kingdom.

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

4. How does Dido kill herself?
(a) With a sword.
(b) By drowning.
(c) With poison.
(d) With a lion bite.

5. How does King Latinus welcome the Trojans to Latinum?
(a) Gladly, because he wants Aeneas to marry his daughter.
(b) Angrily, because the queen is forcing him to be polite to them.
(c) Sadly, because he knows their coming fortells his death.
(d) Duplicitously, because he plans to murder them and take their treasure and ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the plague that descends on the new city Aeneas founds at Pergamum tell the settlers?

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

3. Who does Dido send to plead with Aeneas?

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

5. What does Anchises pray to the gods for?

(see the answer key)

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