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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Aeneas and the Trojans land in Sicily at the beginning of Book V, a year has passed since which important event?
(a) Leaving Dido's city.
(b) Paris taking Helen.
(c) The death of Anchises.
(d) The fall of Troy.

2. What does Ilioneus ask of Dido?
(a) For permission to woo her.
(b) To help them build a shrine to Venus .
(c) To help them mend their ships or to let them stay in Carthage.
(d) For directions to Troy.

3. How is Anchises spending his time in the underworld?
(a) He is lamenting his fate.
(b) He is trading stories with the founders of Troy.
(c) He is resting peacefully.
(d) He is studying the futures and fates of his descendants.

4. What does Anchises pray to the gods for?
(a) To take revenge on the Greeks for sacking Troy.
(b) For the strength to stand up and run.
(c) To keep his grandson Iulus safe.
(d) To punish Aeneas for not protecting the city better.

5. Who travels with Aeneas to check out the place where they have landed?
(a) Pallas.
(b) Venus.
(c) Achates.
(d) Anchises.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Book V, why is the city behind Aeneas' departing ships bright?

2. Which of the following is not an effect that Dido says has been caused by her love affair with Aeneas?

3. What kind of countryman is Achaemenidës?

4. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?

5. How does Dido kill herself?

(see the answer key)

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