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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do Dido and Aeneas become "married"?
(a) On a boat at sea.
(b) At the altar of Juno.
(c) In a cave.
(d) At the ruins of Troy.

3. Why did Misenus meet an early death?
(a) He went looking for Palinurus under the water and drowned too.
(b) He ate the fruit of the golden bough.
(c) He pretended he could make music as well as the gods and Triton drowned him.
(d) He looked straight into the Sibyl's eyes.

4. When Dido sees Aeneas' men readying their ships to sail, for what does she plead?
(a) For them to leave plans with her people for how to build such wonderful ships.
(b) That they sabotage the ships to keep Aeneas in Carthage.
(c) For Aeneas to wait to sail until the weather is better.
(d) That they take her sister Anna with them as a guide.

5. What do seers say it means when Lavinia's hair glows with divine fire?
(a) That she be taken up to Olympus to wed a god.
(b) That she will die by fire.
(c) That she is destined to become the next Sibyl.
(d) That she will be famous and receive glory, but also bring war on her people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?

2. Who does the queen of Latium want her daughter to marry?

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

4. What does Aeneas ask the gods through the Sibyl?

5. For whom does Aeneas return to Troy to search?

(see the answer key)

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