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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the crowd of refugees expect from Aeneas?
(a) They want him to train them in battle so they can fight the Danaans better.
(b) They want him to apologize for letting Troy fall.
(c) They want him to lead them in a prayer of thanks for their escape.
(d) They want him to lead them by sea to new lands.

2. What does Aeneas think when he spots Helen while Troy is being destroyed all around them?
(a) He wants to carry her off and marry her.
(b) He feels pity for her circumstances.
(c) He wants to save her from her fate.
(d) He feels an impulse to kill her to punish her.

3. What does Jupiter predict awaits Aeneas in Italy?
(a) A massive war followed by the establishment of a new city and a new way of life.
(b) Death and betrayal.
(c) A rematch with the same soldiers that destroyed Troy.
(d) A happy marriage with Queen Dido.

4. What is remarkable about the boxing gloves of Eryx?
(a) He left them to his half-brother, Aeneas.
(b) They are heavy and huge.
(c) They are unused.
(d) He had a rule that no one could use them but him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not an effect that Dido says has been caused by her love affair with Aeneas?

2. What omen does everyone witness when Acestës is shooting arrows?

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

4. What does Aeneas see depicted on the walls of the temple that the people of Carthage are building?

5. Which of the following is NOT something Helenus advises Aeneas and his followers to do?

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