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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Aeneas know Antheus, Sergestus, Cloanthus, and Ilioneus?
(a) He does not know who they are.
(b) They are fellow Trojans.
(c) He has heard tales of their great feats.
(d) He fought against them in the Trojan War.

2. Who warns the Trojans not to trust in the wooden horse the Danaans left behind?
(a) Thymoetes.
(b) Laocoön.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Tenedos.

3. Who appears in a dream to warn Aeneas to flee Troy?
(a) Laocoön.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Hector.
(d) Venus.

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

5. What atrocity does Pyrrhus commit in front of Priam?
(a) He claims to be Priam's son.
(b) He sets fire to a holy altar.
(c) He takes away Priam's sword.
(d) He murders Priam's son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sinon say will happen if the Trojans violate the wooden horse?

2. How do the Danaans get inside the walls of Troy?

3. Why is Aeneas' appearance a surprise to Dido and the crowd?

4. What does the plague that descends on the new city Aeneas founds at Pergamum tell the settlers?

5. Why did the Trojans think the Danaans had left?

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