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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?
(a) After a long exile, Aeneas will land in Hesperia and rule a new kingdom.
(b) Though he will try to run, he will never escape the Danaans.
(c) If he will only travel to the underworld, he can bring her back to life.
(d) After years of hard work, he will rebuild Troy in the same place as it once was.

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

3. Why did Misenus meet an early death?
(a) He ate the fruit of the golden bough.
(b) He went looking for Palinurus under the water and drowned too.
(c) He looked straight into the Sibyl's eyes.
(d) He pretended he could make music as well as the gods and Triton drowned him.

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?
(a) Anchises, to confirm for Aeneas that he is in the right place.
(b) Tiberinus, the river god of the Tiber.
(c) Venus, to help her son.
(d) Allecto, who hopes to lead him astray.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Venus send a fake Ascanius to Dido?

2. What important things has Aeneas carried with him from Troy?

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

4. Who warns the Trojans not to trust in the wooden horse the Danaans left behind?

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

(see the answer key)

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