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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 win the war against the Danaans.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They will face the wrath of the goddess Minerva.

2. Which of the following is NOT a reason why Anna thinks Dido should make a match with Aeneas?
(a) It is Jupiter's will.
(b) Dido should enjoy love and children.
(c) Their brother could find and attack them in the future.
(d) Dido's lands are surrounded by hostile people.

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

4. On what do the gods take oaths that they fear to break?
(a) The river Styx.
(b) The golden bough.
(c) The Sibyl.
(d) Charon's boat.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What danger do Aeneas and his men face by Aetna?
(a) A group of sirens.
(b) Another flock of Harpies.
(c) A herd of Cyclops.
(d) The wrath of Juno.

11. What reason does Entellus give for why he didn't volunteer immediately to fight Darës?
(a) He no longer believes that fighting is a good thing to do.
(b) He didn't want to take the chance to fight Darës away from Acestës.
(c) He is getting older and his body is slower than it was.
(d) He would be embarrased to lose to Darës.

12. What happens to everything the Harpies touch?
(a) It turns to gold.
(b) It becomes covered in filth.
(c) It disappears.
(d) It becomes theirs forever.

13. After first meeting Dido, what does Aeneas send for from his ships?
(a) For weapons to surrender them up to Dido's people.
(b) For his best toga and shield.
(c) For his father Anchises and his medicine.
(d) For his son Ascanius and for gifts for Carthage.

14. 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.

15. What happens when souls are destined to be reborn in a second body?
(a) They must petition the kind of the underworld to be reborn.
(b) They must craft new bodies for themselves.
(c) They must sneak past Charon.
(d) They must drink from the water of Lethe to forget their memories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aeneas promise to do if the gods grant his wish?

2. Who dies at the end of Book 3?

3. At the beginning of Book V, why is the city behind Aeneas' departing ships bright?

4. How does Aeneas put out the burning Trojan ships after the Trojan women set them on fire?

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

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