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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does King Iarbas pray to Jove/Jupiter?
(a) He is good friends with Dido and wants Jupiter to protect her new love.
(b) He wants Juno to stop bothering his country.
(c) He wants counsel about how best to attack Dido's lands while she is distracted with Aeneas.
(d) He is angry that after he gave Dido land for her city, she has taken up with someone else.

3. At the beginning of Book V, why is the city behind Aeneas' departing ships bright?
(a) Dido has lit all the torches to light him on his journey.
(b) Dido's pyre is burning.
(c) The gods are shedding light on it to bless it.
(d) DIdo is burning a dummy figure of Aeneas in revenge.

4. Who uses his or her powers to keep the Trojans lost at sea?
(a) Juno.
(b) Neptune.
(c) Venus.
(d) Vulcan.

5. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?
(a) That he left her lands against his will.
(b) That she should have waited becauase he was coming back for her.
(c) That he needs her help to find his father's ghost.
(d) That he can bring her back to life now.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ilioneus ask of Dido?

2. Who is Aeneas told will be willing to fight with him against the Latins?

3. How do the Danaans get inside the walls of Troy?

4. What did the god Saturn give the first people in Latinum to start their civilization?

5. Who will bury Palinurus' body?

(see the answer key)

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