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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the plague that descends on the new city Aeneas founds at Pergamum tell the settlers?
(a) That the settlers must practice better hygiene.
(b) That the gods wish to make the city stronger by weeding out the weak.
(c) That this is the wrong coast to settle and that they should leave for other lands.
(d) That they are being punished for not defending Troy better.

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

3. How does Cloanthus win the boat race during the funeral games?
(a) His prayers convince the harbor god to help him.
(b) He constructs the best boat.
(c) He capsizes the boats of his opponents.
(d) He has Aeneas help him.

4. Whom does Jupiter send to talk to Aeneas?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Juno.
(c) Cupid.
(d) Venus.

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

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

7. Why is Aeneas' appearance a surprise to Dido and the crowd?
(a) He appears out of a thinning cloud as if from thin air.
(b) He appears accompanied by the goddess Venus.
(c) He appears swearing vengeance on them all.
(d) He appears wearing women's garb as a disguise.

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

9. Of what is Helenus' city a replica?
(a) Crete.
(b) Italy.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Troy.

10. Why does Palinurus fall overboard?
(a) Somnus puts him to sleep and shoves him into the water.
(b) He is drunk while on duty.
(c) He trips over Ascanius and falls.
(d) The boat lurches unexpectedly during a storm sent by Jupiter.

11. 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.

12. Who appears in a dream to warn Aeneas to flee Troy?
(a) Laocoön.
(b) Venus.
(c) Hector.
(d) Achilles.

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

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

15. Who travels with Aeneas to check out the place where they have landed?
(a) Pallas.
(b) Anchises.
(c) Achates.
(d) Venus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Helenus say Aeneas should visit for advice?

2. Who will not be a descendant of Aeneas' line?

3. Who does Dido send to plead with Aeneas?

4. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?

5. For whom does Aeneas return to Troy to search?

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