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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 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) Chastizes Allecto for helping Juno start this war.
(c) Calls on the Muse Calliope for help.
(d) Blames Juno for the upcoming bloodshed.

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

3. Where do malefactors live in the underworld?
(a) In the Blessed Groves.
(b) Tartarus.
(c) Elysium.
(d) In the River Styx.

4. 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?
(a) Blood flows from the plant.
(b) Lightning flashes in the sky.
(c) Fire surrounds his head.
(d) Jupiter's voice thunders above.

5. What betrays the presence of Euryalus to the enemy?
(a) Allecto directing their attention to him.
(b) The gleam of his helmet in the moonlight.
(c) The noise of the clanking of the booty he has taken from Turnus' camp.
(d) A snapping twig under his feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?

2. What does Aeneas promise to do if the gods grant his wish?

3. How did Polydorus die?

4. What happens to everything the Harpies touch?

5. On what do the gods take oaths that they fear to break?

(see the answer key)

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