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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mission do Nisus and Euryalus take on?
(a) They intend to go plead with King Latinus to stop the siege.
(b) They intend to go find Aeneas and tell him about the siege.
(c) They intend to find reinforcements.
(d) They intend to abduct Lavinia and bring her back to the Trojan camp.

2. Who or what does Venus say is the cause of the fall of Troy?
(a) Priam for being too proud.
(b) The harsh will of the gods.
(c) Helen and Paris for running away together.
(d) the Trojans for letting the Danaans trick them.

3. What does Aeneas say is the only reason he came to Italy?
(a) Because he promised to aid Evander and the Arcadians.
(b) Because he was invited by King Latinus.
(c) Because fate gave him this land for settlement.
(d) Because he was fleeing the Greeks.

4. Who does Aeneas convince to pledge to fight with him?
(a) The Etruscans.
(b) Juno.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) The Rutulians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Aeneas attribute Darës' inability to beat Entellus?

2. What does Sinon say is the purpose of the big wooden horse?

3. For whom does Aeneas return to Troy to search?

4. How did Polydorus die?

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

(see the answer key)

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