The Aeneid Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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The Aeneid Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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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 Juno craft a phantom Aeneas and lure Turnus onto a departing boat?
(a) To remove the Rutulian leader so Aeneas' soldiers can win the battle.
(b) To keep him from dying in the fight.
(c) To spirit him away to a temple to become a priest for her.
(d) To let another Rutulian have a chance to lead.

2. For what purpose does Virgil invoke Erato, the Muse of Desire?
(a) To help him describe the goddess Circe.
(b) To help him retell the history of the early kings of Latium.
(c) To help him talk about how Aeneas still mourned for Dido.
(d) To help him woo the goddess Venus.

3. Why has Dido turned her face against remarriage?
(a) She does not want any man taking over her kingdom.
(b) She is pledged to Diana.
(c) She must wait until her sister Anna gets married first.
(d) Her brother killed her last husband.

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

5. What happens to the Trojans' ships when Turnus tries to burn them?
(a) At the command of the mother of the gods, Jupiter turns the ships into sea-goddesses and sets them free.
(b) They are hidden from view in mist by Venus.
(c) At the request of Venus, Jupiter causes it to rain and put the fire out.
(d) They go up in ashes, trapping the Trojans in Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what does Venus say is the cause of the fall of Troy?

2. What did the god Saturn give the first people in Latinum to start their civilization?

3. Who is the deity in charge of marriage?

4. What do seers say it means when Lavinia's hair glows with divine fire?

5. What does Sinon say will happen if the Trojans violate the wooden horse?

(see the answer key)

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