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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Jupiter send to talk to Aeneas?
(a) Cupid.
(b) Juno.
(c) Venus.
(d) Mercury.

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

3. Of what is Helenus' city a replica?
(a) Crete.
(b) Troy.
(c) Italy.
(d) Sparta.

4. What omen does everyone witness when Acestës is shooting arrows?
(a) There is a flash of lightning followed by a clap of thunder.
(b) It begins to rain.
(c) His arrow makes a trail of flame and burns away to nothing.
(d) A rainbow appears in the sky.

5. With whose funeral does Book VII open?
(a) Caieta.
(b) Anchises.
(c) Misenus.
(d) Palinurus.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Book V, why is the city behind Aeneas' departing ships bright?

2. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?

3. Why does Acestës welcome Aeneas and his followers?

4. What pictures are shown on the shield Venus gives to Aeneas?

5. How does Aeneas transport Anchises out of Troy?

(see the answer key)

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