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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not an effect that Dido says has been caused by her love affair with Aeneas?
(a) She has lost her integrity.
(b) She is stuck with his child to raise.
(c) Her own people hate her.
(d) Libyans and nomad kings hate her.

2. What do Nisus and Euryalus do as they move through Turnus' camp?
(a) They call on Venus to protect them.
(b) They bind their feet up in cloth to move silently.
(c) They make note of how many soldiers are there.
(d) They slaughter sleeping warriors.

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

4. What does Anchises pray to the gods for?
(a) To keep his grandson Iulus safe.
(b) To take revenge on the Greeks for sacking Troy.
(c) For the strength to stand up and run.
(d) To punish Aeneas for not protecting the city better.

5. What is Iulus' first feat of arms?
(a) He uses his shield to protect another soldier from a rain of arrows.
(b) He fights Turnus with an ax.
(c) He cuts down with his sword a Rutulian trying to climb into the Trojan camp.
(d) He shoots Remulus through the head with an arrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the Ausonians to attack the Trojans?

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

3. How is Queen Amata turned thoroughly against the idea of Aeneas marrying her daughter Lavinia?

4. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?

5. Why has Dido turned her face against remarriage?

(see the answer key)

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