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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT an effect of Dido's love for Aeneas?
(a) All construction of the city of Carthage stops.
(b) Dido persuades Aeneas to help her people build better ships.
(c) Dido keeps holding Ascanius on her lap because he looks like Aeneas.
(d) Dido presses herself against the couch where Aeneas sat.

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

3. How does Darës get Entellus to fall during their boxing match?
(a) He knocks him out with one solid blow.
(b) He has the advantage of using heavier gloves.
(c) He ducks his punch and Entellus topples over.
(d) Entellus makes Darës fall.

4. What curse does Celaeno lay on the Trojans?
(a) That they will be turned into Harpies as well.
(b) That the Trojans will never build their new city until they have experienced famine.
(c) That they will be shipwrecked every time they try to set sail.
(d) That they will wander the sea forever without finding a new place to settle.

5. Which monsters help Vulcan in his forge?
(a) Furies.
(b) Scylla and Charybdis.
(c) Harpies.
(d) Cyclopses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What omen does everyone witness when Acestës is shooting arrows?

2. Why has Dido turned her face against remarriage?

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

4. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?

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

(see the answer key)

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