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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens every time Aeneas tries to tear a branch from a tree in Thrace to construct a roof for the altar of his new colony?
(a) Fire surrounds his head.
(b) Blood flows from the plant.
(c) Jupiter's voice thunders above.
(d) Lightning flashes in the sky.

2. Who sends Iris to talk to the mourning Trojan women?
(a) Dido's ghost.
(b) Juno.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Jupiter.

3. How does Dido's ghost react to seeing Aeneas?
(a) She flees from him and returns to her first husband, Sychaeus.
(b) She smiles and tells him all is forgiven.
(c) She reenacts her suicide.
(d) She falls to her knees and pleads with him to take her away with him.

4. What sign does Aeneas see during the ritual for his father?
(a) A cloud.
(b) A snake.
(c) A tongue of fire.
(d) A flash of lightning.

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

6. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?
(a) After a long exile, Aeneas will land in Hesperia and rule a new kingdom.
(b) If he will only travel to the underworld, he can bring her back to life.
(c) Though he will try to run, he will never escape the Danaans.
(d) After years of hard work, he will rebuild Troy in the same place as it once was.

7. 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 drink from the water of Lethe to forget their memories.
(d) They must sneak past Charon.

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

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

10. For whom does Aeneas return to Troy to search?
(a) His sworn enemy, Sinon.
(b) His mother, Venus.
(c) His wife, Creusa.
(d) His dead king Priam's body.

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

12. Where does Anchises think the voice in the temple is telling them to go build their new city?
(a) Midsea.
(b) Crete.
(c) Troy.
(d) Thrace.

13. What does Sinon claim is the reason he was left behind?
(a) He has been sent to the Trojans as an ambassador of peace.
(b) He snuck away because he wants to help the Trojans beat the Danaans.
(c) He escaped before the Danaans could sacrifice him in exchange for good winds home.
(d) He was left behind to spy on the Trojans.

14. How does Nisus try to help his friend Euryalus win first prize in the foot race?
(a) He discourages others from entering the contest.
(b) He refuses to compete himself.
(c) He cheers loudly for him.
(d) He trips Salius.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Anchises predict will bring and Age of Gold to Latium?

2. What does Palinurus' ghost ask Aeneas to do when he returns to the world?

3. Who is a figure from Greek and Roman mythology NOT depicted in the temple of Apollo?

4. Why does Acestës welcome Aeneas and his followers?

5. To what does Aeneas attribute Darës' inability to beat Entellus?

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