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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who appears in a dream to warn Aeneas to flee Troy?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Venus.
(c) Hector.
(d) Laocoön.

2. How does Cloanthus win the boat race during the funeral games?
(a) He capsizes the boats of his opponents.
(b) His prayers convince the harbor god to help him.
(c) He constructs the best boat.
(d) He has Aeneas help him.

3. After first meeting Dido, what does Aeneas send for from his ships?
(a) For weapons to surrender them up to Dido's people.
(b) For his son Ascanius and for gifts for Carthage.
(c) For his father Anchises and his medicine.
(d) For his best toga and shield.

4. What does the fake Iulus make Dido forget?
(a) The memory of her dead husband, Sychaeus.
(b) The counsel of her sister.
(c) Her responsibilities as queen.
(d) Her duty to help Aeneas.

5. Whom does Helenus say Aeneas should visit for advice?
(a) The sibyl of Cumae.
(b) Scylla.
(c) Andromache.
(d) Charybdis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Dido and Aeneas become "married"?

2. How does Anchises act when Aeneas first comes to help him escape?

3. How does Dido know that Aeneas plans to leave?

4. Where do malefactors live in the underworld?

5. How is Anchises spending his time in the underworld?

(see the answer key)

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