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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aeneas ask the gods through the Sibyl?
(a) He wants his father brought back to life.
(b) He wants revenge on those who ruined Troy.
(c) He wants to settle peacefully in Latium.
(d) He wants help rebuilding the original Troy.

2. Why did the Trojans think the Danaans had left?
(a) The Danaans surrendered and promised to go.
(b) The Danaans set fire to their campsite and let it burn to the ground.
(c) The Danaans hid their ships behind a nearby island.
(d) The Danaans sent a letter announcing that they were leaving.

3. Which of the following is not an excuse Aeneas offers to Dido for why he must leave her?
(a) A messenger from Jupiter commands him to go against his will.
(b) His men cannot protect her and Carthage adequately.
(c) His fate, oracles, and dreams all tell him he must go found a city.
(d) He is not being deceitful because he never entered a pact of marriage with her.

4. Where do malefactors live in the underworld?
(a) In the River Styx.
(b) Tartarus.
(c) In the Blessed Groves.
(d) Elysium.

5. What kind of countryman is Achaemenidës?
(a) Sicilian.
(b) Trojan.
(c) Etruscan.
(d) Ithacan.

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

7. How does Nisus try to help his friend Euryalus win first prize in the foot race?
(a) He trips Salius.
(b) He refuses to compete himself.
(c) He discourages others from entering the contest.
(d) He cheers loudly for him.

8. What is Coroebus' idea for how he, Aeneas, and their companions can pass to safety?
(a) They will call on Venus to come save them.
(b) They will disguise themselves in Greek armor.
(c) They will hide inside the wooden horse until the Greeks take it back outside.
(d) They will escape through a secret tunnel under the city.

9. Who calms the ocean so Aeneas and his men can make it safely to land?
(a) Vulcan.
(b) Venus.
(c) Juno.
(d) Neptune.

10. Who blinded Polyphemus?
(a) Ulysses and his crewmen.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) the Furies.

11. What does Aeneas see depicted on the walls of the temple that the people of Carthage are building?
(a) A map to the underworld.
(b) Pictures of the gods and goddesses quarreling in Olympus.
(c) Portraits of monsters such as the Harpies and the Cyclops.
(d) Scenes of the Trojan War.

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

13. What portent appears relating to Iulus?
(a) A tongue of flame on his head.
(b) A cloud of smoke that covers up his face.
(c) A snake that wraps around his ankle.
(d) A bird that lands on his left shoulder.

14. Why are Aeneas and his people supposed to settle in Hesperia?
(a) It is their true home, the land from which the forefathers of their people came.
(b) The Greeks will never be able to find and attack them there.
(c) They only have enough food to make it that far.
(d) It is Venus' land and she promises it to them.

15. How does Dido kill herself?
(a) With poison.
(b) With a sword.
(c) By drowning.
(d) With a lion bite.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT something Helenus advises Aeneas and his followers to do?

2. What does Palinurus' ghost ask Aeneas to do when he returns to the world?

3. What curse does Celaeno lay on the Trojans?

4. What does Anchises pray to the gods for?

5. Who does Anchises predict will bring and Age of Gold to Latium?

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