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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Coroebus' idea for how he, Aeneas, and their companions can pass to safety?
(a) They will call on Venus to come save them.
(b) They will hide inside the wooden horse until the Greeks take it back outside.
(c) They will disguise themselves in Greek armor.
(d) They will escape through a secret tunnel under the city.

2. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?
(a) Though he will try to run, he will never escape the Danaans.
(b) If he will only travel to the underworld, he can bring her back to life.
(c) After a long exile, Aeneas will land in Hesperia and rule a new kingdom.
(d) After years of hard work, he will rebuild Troy in the same place as it once was.

3. What important things has Aeneas carried with him from Troy?
(a) The Phrygian hearth-gods.
(b) A herd of beasts to sacrifice to the gods.
(c) Three wooden splinters from the wooden horse.
(d) King Priam's sword and shield.

4. Which of the following is NOT something Helenus advises Aeneas and his followers to do?
(a) To make prayers and sacrifices to Juno.
(b) To head for the shoreline to the west.
(c) To look for a sign--a giant white sow nursing a litter of piglets.
(d) To watch out for Scylla and Charybdis.

5. What kind of countryman is Achaemenidës?
(a) Ithacan.
(b) Trojan.
(c) Etruscan.
(d) Sicilian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who uses his or her powers to keep the Trojans lost at sea?

2. What danger do Aeneas and his men face by Aetna?

3. Whom does Helenus say Aeneas should visit for advice?

4. What curse does Celaeno lay on the Trojans?

5. What atrocity does Pyrrhus commit in front of Priam?

(see the answer key)

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