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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what do the gods take oaths that they fear to break?
(a) Charon's boat.
(b) The river Styx.
(c) The Sibyl.
(d) The golden bough.

2. Where does Anchises think the voice in the temple is telling them to go build their new city?
(a) Crete.
(b) Troy.
(c) Midsea.
(d) Thrace.

3. Who does Anchises predict will bring and Age of Gold to Latium?
(a) Silvius.
(b) Romulus.
(c) Caesar Augustus.
(d) Aeneas.

4. Why does Nisus surrender to the Rutulians?
(a) He is lost in the forest and they are his only hope of finding his way back to his camp.
(b) He wants to betray Aeneas for money.
(c) He hopes to spy on them for Aeneas.
(d) He wants to save Euryalus.

5. Who is sent by Juno to Turnus at the beginning of Book IX to tell him now is the time to attack the Trojans?
(a) Juno goes herself.
(b) Neptune.
(c) Iris.
(d) Allecto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of countryman is Achaemenidës?

2. What is the job of the Sibyl?

3. Who laments that only the head of Euryalus is brought back (on a spear) by the Rutulians?

4. What is Aetna?

5. What mission do Nisus and Euryalus take on?

(see the answer key)

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