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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Anchises predict will bring and Age of Gold to Latium?
(a) Caesar Augustus.
(b) Aeneas.
(c) Silvius.
(d) Romulus.

2. What does Venus use to convince her husband Vulcan to make armor for Aeneas?
(a) The flame of love.
(b) Cool reason.
(c) Tears.
(d) Threats of Jupiter's anger.

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

4. What does Juno plan to do in Book VII to stop Aeneas from ruling Italy?
(a) She will enlist Apollo's aid in frightening Aeneas away.
(b) She will spirit Aeneas away to another land.
(c) She will bring down a plague on Latium until Aeneas leaves.
(d) She will delay the wedding with Lavinia and destroy both peoples.

5. Who is a figure from Greek and Roman mythology NOT depicted in the temple of Apollo?
(a) Icarus.
(b) Minotaur.
(c) Androgeos.
(d) Pasiphaë.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dido know that Aeneas plans to leave?

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

3. Who does Aeneas convince to pledge to fight with him?

4. What does the plague that descends on the new city Aeneas founds at Pergamum tell the settlers?

5. What happens when souls are destined to be reborn in a second body?

(see the answer key)

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