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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is remarkable about the boxing gloves of Eryx?
(a) He had a rule that no one could use them but him.
(b) They are heavy and huge.
(c) He left them to his half-brother, Aeneas.
(d) They are unused.

3. What does the plague that descends on the new city Aeneas founds at Pergamum tell the settlers?
(a) That the gods wish to make the city stronger by weeding out the weak.
(b) That they are being punished for not defending Troy better.
(c) That the settlers must practice better hygiene.
(d) That this is the wrong coast to settle and that they should leave for other lands.

4. Who is a figure from Greek and Roman mythology NOT depicted in the temple of Apollo?
(a) Minotaur.
(b) Icarus.
(c) Androgeos.
(d) Pasiphaë.

5. What does the soothsayer say it means when bees cluster together and weigh down the branch of King Latinus' laurel tree?
(a) That a special stranger will come with a body of men to take Latinus' fortress.
(b) That there will be a good harvest that year.
(c) That the tree must be cut down or Latium will fall.
(d) That Latinus and his subjects must band together against strangers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the Sibyl NOT predict awaits Aeneas where he is going?

2. What happens every time Aeneas tries to tear a branch from a tree in Thrace to construct a roof for the altar of his new colony?

3. What does Anchises pray to the gods for?

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

5. Who blinded Polyphemus?

(see the answer key)

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