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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Dido's people take on a peaceful mood toward Aeneas' people?
(a) They were well known for always welcoming new people.
(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 visited by Mercury.

2. Why did the Trojans think the Danaans had left?
(a) The Danaans set fire to their campsite and let it burn to the ground.
(b) The Danaans surrendered and promised to go.
(c) The Danaans sent a letter announcing that they were leaving.
(d) The Danaans hid their ships behind a nearby island.

3. How does Dido's ghost react to seeing Aeneas?
(a) She smiles and tells him all is forgiven.
(b) She falls to her knees and pleads with him to take her away with him.
(c) She reenacts her suicide.
(d) She flees from him and returns to her first husband, Sychaeus.

4. Where does Anchises think the voice in the temple is telling them to go build their new city?
(a) Crete.
(b) Troy.
(c) Thrace.
(d) Midsea.

5. What does Aeneas see depicted on the walls of the temple that the people of Carthage are building?
(a) Portraits of monsters such as the Harpies and the Cyclops.
(b) A map to the underworld.
(c) Pictures of the gods and goddesses quarreling in Olympus.
(d) Scenes of the Trojan War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nisus surrender to the Rutulians?

2. Who laments that only the head of Euryalus is brought back (on a spear) by the Rutulians?

3. Why does Palinurus fall overboard?

4. What portent appears relating to Iulus?

5. Which monsters help Vulcan in his forge?

(see the answer key)

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