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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?
(a) That he can bring her back to life now.
(b) That she should have waited becauase he was coming back for her.
(c) That he needs her help to find his father's ghost.
(d) That he left her lands against his will.
2. Why did Misenus meet an early death?
(a) He ate the fruit of the golden bough.
(b) He pretended he could make music as well as the gods and Triton drowned him.
(c) He went looking for Palinurus under the water and drowned too.
(d) He looked straight into the Sibyl's eyes.
3. What does Anchises show Aeneas in the underworld?
(a) Scenes of what his followers are doing at the present moment.
(b) Scenes from the past history of Troy.
(c) Scenes of his future descendants in Italy.
(d) Scenes of what the deities are doing in Olympus.
4. What does Virgil do to prepare to talk about the warfare between the Trojans and the Rutulians?
(a) Provides the reader with information about the ancestries of the major warriors.
(b) Blames Juno for the upcoming bloodshed.
(c) Calls on the Muse Calliope for help.
(d) Chastizes Allecto for helping Juno start this war.
5. What mission do Nisus and Euryalus take on?
(a) They intend to abduct Lavinia and bring her back to the Trojan camp.
(b) They intend to go find Aeneas and tell him about the siege.
(c) They intend to go plead with King Latinus to stop the siege.
(d) They intend to find reinforcements.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Nisus surrender to the Rutulians?
2. Where do malefactors live in the underworld?
3. What happens to the Trojans' ships when Turnus tries to burn them?
4. What important things has Aeneas carried with him from Troy?
5. Who finds his or her way inside the Trojan camp at the end of Book IX and begins to massacre Trojans?
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