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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does King Iarbas pray to Jove/Jupiter?
(a) He wants Juno to stop bothering his country.
(b) He is good friends with Dido and wants Jupiter to protect her new love.
(c) He is angry that after he gave Dido land for her city, she has taken up with someone else.
(d) He wants counsel about how best to attack Dido's lands while she is distracted with Aeneas.

2. What do seers say it means when Lavinia's hair glows with divine fire?
(a) That she is destined to become the next Sibyl.
(b) That she be taken up to Olympus to wed a god.
(c) That she will die by fire.
(d) That she will be famous and receive glory, but also bring war on her people.

3. Who sends Iris to talk to the mourning Trojan women?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Juno.
(c) Dido's ghost.
(d) Aeneas.

4. What problem does Turnus face when he tries to attack the Trojan camp?
(a) King Latinus interferes and stops him.
(b) He can't locate the camp because the Trojans have moved it.
(c) He is vastly outnumbered by the Trojan fighters.
(d) The Trojans hole up in their camp and won't come out.

5. What happens every time Aeneas tries to tear a branch from a tree in Thrace to construct a roof for the altar of his new colony?
(a) Jupiter's voice thunders above.
(b) Fire surrounds his head.
(c) Blood flows from the plant.
(d) Lightning flashes in the sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT something Helenus advises Aeneas and his followers to do?

2. Who does Venus want to keep safe by removing him or her from the war between the Trojans and Latins?

3. What betrays the presence of Euryalus to the enemy?

4. Who is sent by Juno to Turnus at the beginning of Book IX to tell him now is the time to attack the Trojans?

5. How does Lausus die?

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