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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nisus die?
(a) He is killed by Volcens' men while killing Volcens for killing Euryalus.
(b) He is attacked by the Furies.
(c) He is struck down by Jupiter.
(d) He is ripped apart while Volcens' men are retrieving the booty he stole from the Rutulian camp.

2. Who warns the Trojans not to trust in the wooden horse the Danaans left behind?
(a) Thymoetes.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Laocoön.
(d) Tenedos.

3. What does the fake Iulus make Dido forget?
(a) The memory of her dead husband, Sychaeus.
(b) The counsel of her sister.
(c) Her responsibilities as queen.
(d) Her duty to help Aeneas.

4. How does Dido know that Aeneas plans to leave?
(a) Jupiter tells her.
(b) Rumor tells her.
(c) Juno tells her.
(d) Aeneas tells her.

5. For whom does Aeneas return to Troy to search?
(a) His dead king Priam's body.
(b) His mother, Venus.
(c) His sworn enemy, Sinon.
(d) His wife, Creusa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What danger do Aeneas and his men face by Aetna?

2. What happens every time Aeneas tries to tear a branch from a tree in Thrace to construct a roof for the altar of his new colony?

3. Who is a figure from Greek and Roman mythology NOT depicted in the temple of Apollo?

4. Why does Juno craft a phantom Aeneas and lure Turnus onto a departing boat?

5. What does the soothsayer say it means when bees cluster together and weigh down the branch of King Latinus' laurel tree?

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