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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who travels with Aeneas to check out the place where they have landed?
(a) Venus.
(b) Pallas.
(c) Achates.
(d) Anchises.

3. Who blinded Polyphemus?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Ulysses and his crewmen.
(c) the Furies.
(d) Aeneas.

4. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?
(a) He wants Aeneas to do the right thing and marry Dido properly.
(b) He wants Aeneas to stop praying to him.
(c) He wants Aeneas to help Dido build Carthage into the finest city in the world.
(d) For Aeneas to stop being distracted by Dido and her city and go build his own kingdom.

5. At the beginning of Book V, why is the city behind Aeneas' departing ships bright?
(a) The gods are shedding light on it to bless it.
(b) DIdo is burning a dummy figure of Aeneas in revenge.
(c) Dido has lit all the torches to light him on his journey.
(d) Dido's pyre is burning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Palinurus fall overboard?

3. Why does King Iarbas pray to Jove/Jupiter?

4. Why has Dido turned her face against remarriage?

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

(see the answer key)

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