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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aeneas see depicted on the walls of the temple that the people of Carthage are building?
(a) Portraits of monsters such as the Harpies and the Cyclops.
(b) Pictures of the gods and goddesses quarreling in Olympus.
(c) Scenes of the Trojan War.
(d) A map to the underworld.

2. Who does Venus send to Carthage disguised as Aeneas' son?
(a) A huntress.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Vulcan.
(d) Her son, Cupid.

3. Who is Andromache's new husband?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Helenus.
(c) Pyrrhus.
(d) Orestes.

4. What does Sinon claim is the reason he was left behind?
(a) He snuck away because he wants to help the Trojans beat the Danaans.
(b) He was left behind to spy on the Trojans.
(c) He has been sent to the Trojans as an ambassador of peace.
(d) He escaped before the Danaans could sacrifice him in exchange for good winds home.

5. When Dido sees Aeneas' men readying their ships to sail, for what does she plead?
(a) For Aeneas to wait to sail until the weather is better.
(b) That they sabotage the ships to keep Aeneas in Carthage.
(c) That they take her sister Anna with them as a guide.
(d) For them to leave plans with her people for how to build such wonderful ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not an excuse Aeneas offers to Dido for why he must leave her?

2. Who tells Aeneas he is in Carthage?

3. How does Aeneas know Antheus, Sergestus, Cloanthus, and Ilioneus?

4. Who travels with Aeneas to check out the place where they have landed?

5. Why does Venus send a fake Ascanius to Dido?

(see the answer key)

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