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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Coroebus' idea for how he, Aeneas, and their companions can pass to safety?
(a) They will disguise themselves in Greek armor.
(b) They will escape through a secret tunnel under the city.
(c) They will call on Venus to come save them.
(d) They will hide inside the wooden horse until the Greeks take it back outside.

2. How does Dido's ghost react to seeing Aeneas?
(a) She smiles and tells him all is forgiven.
(b) She falls to her knees and pleads with him to take her away with him.
(c) She reenacts her suicide.
(d) She flees from him and returns to her first husband, Sychaeus.

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

4. How does Dido kill herself?
(a) With a sword.
(b) With poison.
(c) With a lion bite.
(d) By drowning.

5. Who is a figure from Greek and Roman mythology NOT depicted in the temple of Apollo?
(a) Androgeos.
(b) Minotaur.
(c) Pasiphaë.
(d) Icarus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Juno plan to do in Book VII to stop Aeneas from ruling Italy?

2. How do the Danaans get inside the walls of Troy?

3. What does the goddess Circe do to those she enchants?

4. Where do Dido and Aeneas become "married"?

5. What does Aeneas think when he spots Helen while Troy is being destroyed all around them?

(see the answer key)

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