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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who warns the Trojans not to trust in the wooden horse the Danaans left behind?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Laocoön.
(c) Tenedos.
(d) Thymoetes.

2. Which of the following is NOT an effect of Dido's love for Aeneas?
(a) Dido persuades Aeneas to help her people build better ships.
(b) Dido presses herself against the couch where Aeneas sat.
(c) Dido keeps holding Ascanius on her lap because he looks like Aeneas.
(d) All construction of the city of Carthage stops.

3. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?
(a) He wants Aeneas to do the right thing and marry Dido properly.
(b) For Aeneas to stop being distracted by Dido and her city and go build his own kingdom.
(c) He wants Aeneas to stop praying to him.
(d) He wants Aeneas to help Dido build Carthage into the finest city in the world.

4. What curse does Celaeno lay on the Trojans?
(a) That they will wander the sea forever without finding a new place to settle.
(b) That the Trojans will never build their new city until they have experienced famine.
(c) That they will be shipwrecked every time they try to set sail.
(d) That they will be turned into Harpies as well.

5. Who appears in a dream to warn Aeneas to flee Troy?
(a) Venus.
(b) Laocoön.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Hector.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?

2. How does Dido kill herself?

3. What hides Aeneas' identity as he travels through Carthage?

4. What reason does Entellus give for why he didn't volunteer immediately to fight Darës?

5. What does Neptune say must happen for Aeneas and his followers to have save passage over the seas?

(see the answer key)

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