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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Dido's people take on a peaceful mood toward Aeneas' people?
(a) They were well known for always welcoming new people.
(b) They were visited by Mercury.
(c) They had heard great things about the Trojans from the Greeks.
(d) Queen Dido commanded them to welcome all new visitors.

2. What portent appears relating to Iulus?
(a) A tongue of flame on his head.
(b) A bird that lands on his left shoulder.
(c) A cloud of smoke that covers up his face.
(d) A snake that wraps around his ankle.

3. Which of the following is not an effect that Dido says has been caused by her love affair with Aeneas?
(a) She has lost her integrity.
(b) Libyans and nomad kings hate her.
(c) Her own people hate her.
(d) She is stuck with his child to raise.

4. 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.

5. 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 keeps holding Ascanius on her lap because he looks like Aeneas.
(c) Dido presses herself against the couch where Aeneas sat.
(d) Dido persuades Aeneas to help her people build better ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dido send to plead with Aeneas?

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

3. How does Darës get Entellus to fall during their boxing match?

4. Why do the Trojan women set fire to the Trojan ships in Book V?

5. Who is Andromache's new husband?

(see the answer key)

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