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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who blinded Polyphemus?
(a) Ulysses and his crewmen.
(b) Aeneas.
(c) the Furies.
(d) Orestes.

2. What action does the goddess Rumor take after Dido and Aeneas begin to revel in each others' company?
(a) She tattles to Juno about what they have done.
(b) She travels from country to country telling people that it isn't true that they are together.
(c) She tells the world of their love to encourage everyone to celebrate their union.
(d) She spreads whispers and gossip to make Dido's other suitors angry and jealous.

3. What does Aeneas promise to do if the gods grant his wish?
(a) He will honor his mother Venus more.
(b) He will build a temple to Phoebus and Diana of the Crossroads.
(c) He will name his new city after Jupiter.
(d) He will make a sacrifice to Juno.

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

5. Why does Juno say Venus has made Dido fall in love with Aeneas?
(a) Because Venus wanted to cheer her son up.
(b) Because Venus was afraid of and wanted to stop the growing power of Carthage.
(c) Because Venus could not bear to see Dido so unhappy.
(d) To keep Dido from falling in love with a Greek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Dido and Aeneas become "married"?

2. What is the job of the Sibyl?

3. What is Coroebus' idea for how he, Aeneas, and their companions can pass to safety?

4. Why does Venus at first think Juno's idea to have Dido and Aeneas marry and rule Carthage side by side is a bad one?

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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