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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mission do Nisus and Euryalus take on?
(a) They intend to find reinforcements.
(b) They intend to abduct Lavinia and bring her back to the Trojan camp.
(c) They intend to go plead with King Latinus to stop the siege.
(d) They intend to go find Aeneas and tell him about the siege.

2. What is one of Juno's arguments for why it was right for her to have helped the Rutulians?
(a) The Rutulians are fated to rule, and she is just helping them fulfill that fate.
(b) Other gods helped Aeneas by spiriting him to safety and turning his ships into nymphs.
(c) The Rutulians made all the right sacrifices to her.
(d) She is spending an equal amount of time helping Aeneas.

3. Who is Andromache's new husband?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Pyrrhus.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Helenus.

4. Who travels with Aeneas to check out the place where they have landed?
(a) Pallas.
(b) Anchises.
(c) Venus.
(d) Achates.

5. Why does Nisus surrender to the Rutulians?
(a) He is lost in the forest and they are his only hope of finding his way back to his camp.
(b) He wants to save Euryalus.
(c) He wants to betray Aeneas for money.
(d) He hopes to spy on them for Aeneas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Evander, unaware, is the founder of which of the following?

2. Who dies at the end of Book 3?

3. Which of the following is not an excuse Aeneas offers to Dido for why he must leave her?

4. What happens to everything the Harpies touch?

5. What does Sinon say is the purpose of the big wooden horse?

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