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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Jupiter predict awaits Aeneas in Italy?
(a) A massive war followed by the establishment of a new city and a new way of life.
(b) A rematch with the same soldiers that destroyed Troy.
(c) A happy marriage with Queen Dido.
(d) Death and betrayal.

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

5. Why did Misenus meet an early death?
(a) He went looking for Palinurus under the water and drowned too.
(b) He looked straight into the Sibyl's eyes.
(c) He pretended he could make music as well as the gods and Triton drowned him.
(d) He ate the fruit of the golden bough.

6. What does Aeneas promise to do if the gods grant his wish?
(a) He will build a temple to Phoebus and Diana of the Crossroads.
(b) He will honor his mother Venus more.
(c) He will name his new city after Jupiter.
(d) He will make a sacrifice to Juno.

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

8. Which of the following is NOT a type of funeral game?
(a) A ship race.
(b) A foot race.
(c) A chariot race.
(d) Javelin and archery contests.

9. What meaning does Anchises say the portent of four white horses can have?
(a) Both fame and fortune.
(b) Both war and peace.
(c) Both laughter and tears.
(d) Both feast and famine.

10. 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 they will be shipwrecked every time they try to set sail.
(c) That the Trojans will never build their new city until they have experienced famine.
(d) That they will be turned into Harpies as well.

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

12. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?
(a) If he will only travel to the underworld, he can bring her back to life.
(b) Though he will try to run, he will never escape the Danaans.
(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. Which of the following does the Sibyl NOT predict awaits Aeneas where he is going?
(a) Continued harassment from Juno.
(b) Marriage with a foreign bride.
(c) Vicious wars.
(d) The death of Ascanius.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the plague that descends on the new city Aeneas founds at Pergamum tell the settlers?

2. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?

3. Why did the Trojans think the Danaans had left?

4. Why is Aeneas' appearance a surprise to Dido and the crowd?

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

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