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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Palinurus fall overboard?
(a) The boat lurches unexpectedly during a storm sent by Jupiter.
(b) He trips over Ascanius and falls.
(c) Somnus puts him to sleep and shoves him into the water.
(d) He is drunk while on duty.

2. How does Cloanthus win the boat race during the funeral games?
(a) His prayers convince the harbor god to help him.
(b) He capsizes the boats of his opponents.
(c) He constructs the best boat.
(d) He has Aeneas help him.

3. What does the fake Iulus make Dido forget?
(a) The memory of her dead husband, Sychaeus.
(b) Her responsibilities as queen.
(c) Her duty to help Aeneas.
(d) The counsel of her sister.

4. Who does Venus want to keep safe by removing him or her from the war between the Trojans and Latins?
(a) Aeneas.
(b) Ascanius.
(c) Lavinia.
(d) Herself.

5. How does Dido know that Aeneas plans to leave?
(a) Juno tells her.
(b) Jupiter tells her.
(c) Aeneas tells her.
(d) Rumor tells her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do malefactors live in the underworld?

2. What betrays the presence of Euryalus to the enemy?

3. Why did Misenus meet an early death?

4. Evander, unaware, is the founder of which of the following?

5. What curse does Celaeno lay on the Trojans?

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