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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does Dido send to plead with Aeneas?
(a) King Iarbas.
(b) Her favorite handmaiden.
(c) Ascanius.
(d) Anna.
2. Who is the deity in charge of marriage?
(a) Diana.
(b) Juno.
(c) Minerva.
(d) Venus.
3. How does Dido know that Aeneas plans to leave?
(a) Aeneas tells her.
(b) Rumor tells her.
(c) Jupiter tells her.
(d) Juno tells her.
4. When Dido sees Aeneas' men readying their ships to sail, for what does she plead?
(a) That they take her sister Anna with them as a guide.
(b) For Aeneas to wait to sail until the weather is better.
(c) That they sabotage the ships to keep Aeneas in Carthage.
(d) For them to leave plans with her people for how to build such wonderful ships.
5. What does Palinurus' ghost ask Aeneas to do when he returns to the world?
(a) To avenge his death.
(b) To do anything to make Iulus a king.
(c) Never to let Achates helm the boat.
(d) To find and bury his body.
6. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?
(a) Though he will try to run, he will never escape the Danaans.
(b) If he will only travel to the underworld, he can bring her back to life.
(c) After years of hard work, he will rebuild Troy in the same place as it once was.
(d) After a long exile, Aeneas will land in Hesperia and rule a new kingdom.
7. What meaning does Anchises say the portent of four white horses can have?
(a) Both fame and fortune.
(b) Both laughter and tears.
(c) Both feast and famine.
(d) Both war and peace.
8. How does Aeneas know Antheus, Sergestus, Cloanthus, and Ilioneus?
(a) He does not know who they are.
(b) He has heard tales of their great feats.
(c) They are fellow Trojans.
(d) He fought against them in the Trojan War.
9. How does Aeneas transport Anchises out of Troy?
(a) In a wheeled cart.
(b) By pulling him along by the hand.
(c) On a stretcher after the Danaans wound him.
(d) On his back.
10. What does Aeneas think when he spots Helen while Troy is being destroyed all around them?
(a) He feels pity for her circumstances.
(b) He wants to save her from her fate.
(c) He feels an impulse to kill her to punish her.
(d) He wants to carry her off and marry her.
11. How did Polydorus die?
(a) Killed in a battle during the siege of Troy.
(b) Murdered by his host, the Thracian king, for the gold he held.
(c) Sickened by a terrible plague.
(d) Attacked and smothered by plants.
12. What does Aeneas see depicted on the walls of the temple that the people of Carthage are building?
(a) Pictures of the gods and goddesses quarreling in Olympus.
(b) A map to the underworld.
(c) Portraits of monsters such as the Harpies and the Cyclops.
(d) Scenes of the Trojan War.
13. Who dies at the end of Book 3?
(a) Polyphemus.
(b) Achaemenidës.
(c) Helenus.
(d) Anchises.
14. Who warns the Trojans not to trust in the wooden horse the Danaans left behind?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Laocoön.
(c) Tenedos.
(d) Thymoetes.
15. Which of the following must Aeneas do to enter the underworld?
(a) He must wait for Venus to come take him.
(b) He must pick the golden bough.
(c) He must wrestle the gatekeeper and win.
(d) He must find and follow Orpheus down.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Sinon claim is the reason he was left behind?
2. How does Dido's ghost react to seeing Aeneas?
3. At the beginning of Book V, why is the city behind Aeneas' departing ships bright?
4. What does Neptune say must happen for Aeneas and his followers to have save passage over the seas?
5. What sign does Aeneas see during the ritual for his father?
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