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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Aeneas' appearance a surprise to Dido and the crowd?
(a) He appears out of a thinning cloud as if from thin air.
(b) He appears wearing women's garb as a disguise.
(c) He appears accompanied by the goddess Venus.
(d) He appears swearing vengeance on them all.

2. Where do Dido and Aeneas become "married"?
(a) At the altar of Juno.
(b) On a boat at sea.
(c) In a cave.
(d) At the ruins of Troy.

3. Who kills Pallas?
(a) Lausus.
(b) Camilla.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Turnus.

4. What meaning does Anchises say the portent of four white horses can have?
(a) Both feast and famine.
(b) Both fame and fortune.
(c) Both war and peace.
(d) Both laughter and tears.

5. What does Venus claim the Trojans would have been better off doing after Troy was destroyed by the Greeks?
(a) Building shrines to her everywhere they traveled.
(b) Showering King Latinus with shiploads of gifts to win him over before meeting him.
(c) Rebuilding Troy instead of being pricked by fate to travel to Latium and enter into a new conflict.
(d) Staying with the rest of their people back with Acestës.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the feast the Arcadians are having celebrate?

2. Who does Venus want to keep safe by removing him or her from the war between the Trojans and Latins?

3. Why does King Iarbas pray to Jove/Jupiter?

4. How does Lausus die?

5. Where do malefactors live in the underworld?

(see the answer key)

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