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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Anchises act when Aeneas first comes to help him escape?
(a) He is crying too hard to get any words out.
(b) He berates Aeneas for not coming to get him sooner.
(c) He urges the others to escape and leave him behind.
(d) He is sleeping too soundly to be awakened.

2. How do the Danaans get inside the walls of Troy?
(a) The Trojans move the horse next to their walls and the soldiers use it as a ladder.
(b) While the Trojans are busy looking at the horse, the Danaans storm the front gates of Troy.
(c) The Trojans carry the horse inside and Sinon lets the soldiers inside it out.
(d) The Danaans are still unable to breach the walls of Troy.

3. Who tells Aeneas he is in Carthage?
(a) Juno.
(b) Venus.
(c) Achates.
(d) Dido.

4. Why did the Trojans think the Danaans had left?
(a) The Danaans set fire to their campsite and let it burn to the ground.
(b) The Danaans surrendered and promised to go.
(c) The Danaans sent a letter announcing that they were leaving.
(d) The Danaans hid their ships behind a nearby island.

5. After first meeting Dido, what does Aeneas send for from his ships?
(a) For his father Anchises and his medicine.
(b) For weapons to surrender them up to Dido's people.
(c) For his son Ascanius and for gifts for Carthage.
(d) For his best toga and shield.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what does Venus say is the cause of the fall of Troy?

2. From whom will Julius Caesar get his name?

3. What portent appears relating to Iulus?

4. What do the crowd of refugees expect from Aeneas?

5. What tale does Dido want Aeneas to tell?

(see the answer key)

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