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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who blinded Polyphemus?
(a) the Furies.
(b) Ulysses and his crewmen.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Orestes.

2. When Dido sees Aeneas' men readying their ships to sail, for what does she plead?
(a) That they take her sister Anna with them as a guide.
(b) That they sabotage the ships to keep Aeneas in Carthage.
(c) For them to leave plans with her people for how to build such wonderful ships.
(d) For Aeneas to wait to sail until the weather is better.

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

4. How is Turnus spurred to make war on both King Latinus and the Trojans?
(a) Bacchus intoxicates his mind.
(b) Allecto plants a smoking torch in his body that fills him with a lust for war.
(c) Jupiter visits him and promises to help him defeat them both.
(d) Vulcan supplies him with weapons that cannot be defeated.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sinon say will happen if the Trojans violate the wooden horse?

3. Which of the following must Aeneas do to enter the underworld?

4. What does Dido tell Aeneas she will do after he leaves?

5. How does Dido kill herself?

(see the answer key)

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