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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anchises pray to the gods for?
(a) To keep his grandson Iulus safe.
(b) To punish Aeneas for not protecting the city better.
(c) To take revenge on the Greeks for sacking Troy.
(d) For the strength to stand up and run.

2. To what does Aeneas attribute Darës' inability to beat Entellus?
(a) The changed will of the gods.
(b) Darës' lack of skill.
(c) The inadequate gloves Darës is using.
(d) The fact that Darës does not want to win badly enough.

3. What does Ilioneus ask of Dido?
(a) To help them mend their ships or to let them stay in Carthage.
(b) To help them build a shrine to Venus .
(c) For directions to Troy.
(d) For permission to woo her.

4. Who dies at the end of Book 3?
(a) Polyphemus.
(b) Anchises.
(c) Achaemenidës.
(d) Helenus.

5. How is Anchises spending his time in the underworld?
(a) He is lamenting his fate.
(b) He is trading stories with the founders of Troy.
(c) He is resting peacefully.
(d) He is studying the futures and fates of his descendants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does the goddess Rumor take after Dido and Aeneas begin to revel in each others' company?

2. Who travels with Aeneas to check out the place where they have landed?

3. From whom will Julius Caesar get his name?

4. When Aeneas and the Trojans land in Sicily at the beginning of Book V, a year has passed since which important event?

5. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?

(see the answer key)

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