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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?
(a) After a long exile, Aeneas will land in Hesperia and rule a new kingdom.
(b) If he will only travel to the underworld, he can bring her back to life.
(c) Though he will try to run, he will never escape the Danaans.
(d) After years of hard work, he will rebuild Troy in the same place as it once was.

4. For whom does Aeneas return to Troy to search?
(a) His dead king Priam's body.
(b) His mother, Venus.
(c) His sworn enemy, Sinon.
(d) His wife, Creusa.

5. What does Sinon say will happen if the Trojans violate the wooden horse?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They will face the wrath of the goddess Minerva.
(c) They will win the favor of the god Pallas.
(d) They will win the war against the Danaans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who appears in a dream to warn Aeneas to flee Troy?

2. Why did the Trojans think the Danaans had left?

3. What does Jupiter predict awaits Aeneas in Italy?

4. What does Sinon claim is the reason he was left behind?

5. Who warns the Trojans not to trust in the wooden horse the Danaans left behind?

(see the answer key)

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