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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Anchises act when Aeneas first comes to help him escape?
(a) He is crying too hard to get any words out.
(b) He urges the others to escape and leave him behind.
(c) He is sleeping too soundly to be awakened.
(d) He berates Aeneas for not coming to get him sooner.

2. Whom does Jupiter send to talk to Aeneas?
(a) Juno.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Venus.
(d) Cupid.

3. Why does Juno say Venus has made Dido fall in love with Aeneas?
(a) Because Venus wanted to cheer her son up.
(b) Because Venus could not bear to see Dido so unhappy.
(c) Because Venus was afraid of and wanted to stop the growing power of Carthage.
(d) To keep Dido from falling in love with a Greek.

4. Whom does Helenus say Aeneas should visit for advice?
(a) The sibyl of Cumae.
(b) Charybdis.
(c) Andromache.
(d) Scylla.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Aeneas' appearance a surprise to Dido and the crowd?

2. Why does Venus send a fake Ascanius to Dido?

3. From whom will Julius Caesar get his name?

4. What does the plague that descends on the new city Aeneas founds at Pergamum tell the settlers?

5. What does Jupiter predict awaits Aeneas in Italy?

(see the answer key)

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