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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who tells Aeneas that Ascanius and the Trojans are under siege?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) The ghost of Euryalus.
(c) The ghost of Nisus.
(d) The sea nymphs that were once his ships.

3. What is Aetna?
(a) A large river.
(b) A huge waterfall.
(c) A geyser that sprays from the ground.
(d) A volcano.

4. What happens when souls are destined to be reborn in a second body?
(a) They must drink from the water of Lethe to forget their memories.
(b) They must petition the kind of the underworld to be reborn.
(c) They must sneak past Charon.
(d) They must craft new bodies for themselves.

5. How does Dido kill herself?
(a) With a sword.
(b) With poison.
(c) With a lion bite.
(d) By drowning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Virgil do to prepare to talk about the warfare between the Trojans and the Rutulians?

3. Who is sent by Juno to Turnus at the beginning of Book IX to tell him now is the time to attack the Trojans?

4. What does Palinurus' ghost ask Aeneas to do when he returns to the world?

5. Who will not be a descendant of Aeneas' line?

(see the answer key)

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