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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT something Helenus advises Aeneas and his followers to do?
(a) To watch out for Scylla and Charybdis.
(b) To make prayers and sacrifices to Juno.
(c) To head for the shoreline to the west.
(d) To look for a sign--a giant white sow nursing a litter of piglets.

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

3. Where do Dido and Aeneas become "married"?
(a) In a cave.
(b) At the ruins of Troy.
(c) On a boat at sea.
(d) At the altar of Juno.

4. Which of the following is NOT a reason why Anna thinks Dido should make a match with Aeneas?
(a) Dido's lands are surrounded by hostile people.
(b) It is Jupiter's will.
(c) Dido should enjoy love and children.
(d) Their brother could find and attack them in the future.

5. What does the plague that descends on the new city Aeneas founds at Pergamum tell the settlers?
(a) That the gods wish to make the city stronger by weeding out the weak.
(b) That the settlers must practice better hygiene.
(c) That this is the wrong coast to settle and that they should leave for other lands.
(d) That they are being punished for not defending Troy better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?

2. Of what is Helenus' city a replica?

3. What tale does Dido want Aeneas to tell?

4. Why are Aeneas and his people supposed to settle in Hesperia?

5. What hides Aeneas' identity as he travels through Carthage?

(see the answer key)

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