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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 Virgil do to prepare to talk about the warfare between the Trojans and the Rutulians?
(a) Blames Juno for the upcoming bloodshed.
(b) Provides the reader with information about the ancestries of the major warriors.
(c) Chastizes Allecto for helping Juno start this war.
(d) Calls on the Muse Calliope for help.

2. What is Aetna?
(a) A volcano.
(b) A geyser that sprays from the ground.
(c) A large river.
(d) A huge waterfall.

3. What does Dido tell Aeneas she will do after he leaves?
(a) Haunt him as a spirit after she dies.
(b) Follow him to kill him.
(c) Construct a temple in his honor.
(d) Marry a neighboring king to keep her lands safe.

4. What causes the Ausonians to attack the Trojans?
(a) Trojan soldiers insult Lavinia.
(b) Iulus hunted and shot a deer he didn't know was a favored pet.
(c) Aeneas does not show proper reverence to King Latinus' laurel tree.
(d) A snake startles them and a soldier striking at it causes everyone to start fighting.

5. Who uses his or her powers to keep the Trojans lost at sea?
(a) Neptune.
(b) Juno.
(c) Vulcan.
(d) Venus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the god Saturn give the first people in Latinum to start their civilization?

2. Why has Dido turned her face against remarriage?

3. What is remarkable about the boxing gloves of Eryx?

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

5. Why do the Trojan women set fire to the Trojan ships in Book V?

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