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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT an effect of Dido's love for Aeneas?
(a) All construction of the city of Carthage stops.
(b) Dido persuades Aeneas to help her people build better ships.
(c) Dido presses herself against the couch where Aeneas sat.
(d) Dido keeps holding Ascanius on her lap because he looks like Aeneas.

3. Why does King Iarbas pray to Jove/Jupiter?
(a) He wants counsel about how best to attack Dido's lands while she is distracted with Aeneas.
(b) He is good friends with Dido and wants Jupiter to protect her new love.
(c) He wants Juno to stop bothering his country.
(d) He is angry that after he gave Dido land for her city, she has taken up with someone else.

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

5. What action does the goddess Rumor take after Dido and Aeneas begin to revel in each others' company?
(a) She tattles to Juno about what they have done.
(b) She tells the world of their love to encourage everyone to celebrate their union.
(c) She spreads whispers and gossip to make Dido's other suitors angry and jealous.
(d) She travels from country to country telling people that it isn't true that they are together.

6. Who tells Aeneas he is in Carthage?
(a) Achates.
(b) Venus.
(c) Juno.
(d) Dido.

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

8. Who is the deity in charge of marriage?
(a) Minerva.
(b) Juno.
(c) Diana.
(d) Venus.

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

10. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?
(a) That he needs her help to find his father's ghost.
(b) That he can bring her back to life now.
(c) That he left her lands against his will.
(d) That she should have waited becauase he was coming back for her.

11. What does Sinon say is the purpose of the big wooden horse?
(a) It is meant to be fuel for a bonfire when the Danaans return to destroy Troy.
(b) It is a lighthouse to guide the Danaan ships back to Troy.
(c) It is a gift to tell the Trojans they are sorry for attacking Troy.
(d) It is an offering to apologize for stealing the Palladium.

12. 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 their love will last.
(b) She wants Aeneas to be the sole ruler of Carthage.
(c) She does not want Italy's future power diverted to Carthage.
(d) She does not think it fair to Dido to make her rule with Aeneas.

13. Whom does Helenus say Aeneas should visit for advice?
(a) Charybdis.
(b) Scylla.
(c) The sibyl of Cumae.
(d) Andromache.

14. What does Palinurus' ghost ask Aeneas to do when he returns to the world?
(a) To find and bury his body.
(b) To avenge his death.
(c) Never to let Achates helm the boat.
(d) To do anything to make Iulus a king.

15. 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) Portraits of monsters such as the Harpies and the Cyclops.
(c) Pictures of the gods and goddesses quarreling in Olympus.
(d) Scenes of the Trojan War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Neptune say must happen for Aeneas and his followers to have save passage over the seas?

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

3. How does Dido kill herself?

4. Where do Dido and Aeneas become "married"?

5. What omen does everyone witness when Acestës is shooting arrows?

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