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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Trojan women set fire to the Trojan ships in Book V?
(a) It was a mistake and they actually meant to burn Acestës' ships.
(b) They are dazzled by signs and portents and want to make their home where they are.
(c) It is a sign of respect and morning.
(d) They are afraid Aeneas will leave without them.

2. How does Dido know that Aeneas plans to leave?
(a) Aeneas tells her.
(b) Juno tells her.
(c) Rumor tells her.
(d) Jupiter tells her.

3. What omen does everyone witness when Acestës is shooting arrows?
(a) His arrow makes a trail of flame and burns away to nothing.
(b) It begins to rain.
(c) There is a flash of lightning followed by a clap of thunder.
(d) A rainbow appears in the sky.

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

5. Who does Dido send to plead with Aeneas?
(a) Ascanius.
(b) Her favorite handmaiden.
(c) Anna.
(d) King Iarbas.

6. When Dido sees Aeneas' men readying their ships to sail, for what does she plead?
(a) That they sabotage the ships to keep Aeneas in Carthage.
(b) That they take her sister Anna with them as a guide.
(c) For Aeneas to wait to sail until the weather is better.
(d) For them to leave plans with her people for how to build such wonderful ships.

7. What is the job of the Sibyl?
(a) To give directions on where to go.
(b) To advise people on what jobs to take.
(c) To guard a special cave entrance.
(d) To tell people what will happen.

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

9. Who is Andromache's new husband?
(a) Pyrrhus.
(b) Helenus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Orestes.

10. Where do Dido and Aeneas become "married"?
(a) In a cave.
(b) At the altar of Juno.
(c) On a boat at sea.
(d) At the ruins of Troy.

11. From whom will Julius Caesar get his name?
(a) Aeneas' grandfather, Ilium.
(b) Aeneas' son Ascanius, renamed Iulus.
(c) Aeneas' daughter Creusa, renamed Julia.
(d) Aeneas' sister, Ilia.

12. What does Ilioneus ask of Dido?
(a) To help them mend their ships or to let them stay in Carthage.
(b) To help them build a shrine to Venus .
(c) For directions to Troy.
(d) For permission to woo her.

13. Why does Venus at first think Juno's idea to have Dido and Aeneas marry and rule Carthage side by side is a bad one?
(a) She does not think it fair to Dido to make her rule with Aeneas.
(b) She does not want Italy's future power diverted to Carthage.
(c) She wants Aeneas to be the sole ruler of Carthage.
(d) She does not think their love will last.

14. What is Aetna?
(a) A geyser that sprays from the ground.
(b) A large river.
(c) A volcano.
(d) A huge waterfall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Jupiter send to talk to Aeneas?

2. What does Aeneas see depicted on the walls of the temple that the people of Carthage are building?

3. Which of the following must Aeneas do to enter the underworld?

4. Where do malefactors live in the underworld?

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

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