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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 Acestës welcome Aeneas and his followers?
(a) He empathizes with their sufferings.
(b) Jupiter commands him to welcome them.
(c) His mother was Trojan.
(d) He is secretly plotting against them.

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

3. What tale does Dido want Aeneas to tell?
(a) How Troy fell and how the Trojans traveled to Carthage.
(b) The story of Eros and Psyche.
(c) What happened to Odysseus during his Odyssey.
(d) How his parents met and had hims

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

5. Who does Venus want to keep safe by removing him or her from the war between the Trojans and Latins?
(a) Ascanius.
(b) Aeneas.
(c) Lavinia.
(d) Herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Aeneas put out the burning Trojan ships after the Trojan women set them on fire?

2. How does Anchises act when Aeneas first comes to help him escape?

3. What does Neptune say must happen for Aeneas and his followers to have save passage over the seas?

4. Who blinded Polyphemus?

5. Who does Dido send to plead with Aeneas?

(see the answer key)

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