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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 take her sister Anna with them as a guide.
(c) That they sabotage the ships to keep Aeneas in Carthage.
(d) For Aeneas to wait to sail until the weather is better.

2. Which monsters help Vulcan in his forge?
(a) Furies.
(b) Scylla and Charybdis.
(c) Cyclopses.
(d) Harpies.

3. Why did Dido's people take on a peaceful mood toward Aeneas' people?
(a) They were visited by Mercury.
(b) Queen Dido commanded them to welcome all new visitors.
(c) They had heard great things about the Trojans from the Greeks.
(d) They were well known for always welcoming new people.

4. How does Anchises act when Aeneas first comes to help him escape?
(a) He is sleeping too soundly to be awakened.
(b) He urges the others to escape and leave him behind.
(c) He is crying too hard to get any words out.
(d) He berates Aeneas for not coming to get him sooner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whose funeral does Book VII open?

2. Who is Andromache's new husband?

3. Why does Venus at first think Juno's idea to have Dido and Aeneas marry and rule Carthage side by side is a bad one?

4. Who appears to Aeneas in a dream to tell him where to find people willing to ally themselves with the Trojans against the Latins?

5. What does the goddess Circe do to those she enchants?

(see the answer key)

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