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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What atrocity does Pyrrhus commit in front of Priam?
(a) He sets fire to a holy altar.
(b) He takes away Priam's sword.
(c) He claims to be Priam's son.
(d) He murders Priam's son.

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

6. How do the Danaans get inside the walls of Troy?
(a) The Trojans move the horse next to their walls and the soldiers use it as a ladder.
(b) While the Trojans are busy looking at the horse, the Danaans storm the front gates of Troy.
(c) The Danaans are still unable to breach the walls of Troy.
(d) The Trojans carry the horse inside and Sinon lets the soldiers inside it out.

7. 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 the settlers must practice better hygiene.
(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.

8. Which of the following must Aeneas do to enter the underworld?
(a) He must find and follow Orpheus down.
(b) He must pick the golden bough.
(c) He must wait for Venus to come take him.
(d) He must wrestle the gatekeeper and win.

9. Why did Misenus meet an early death?
(a) He pretended he could make music as well as the gods and Triton drowned him.
(b) He ate the fruit of the golden bough.
(c) He looked straight into the Sibyl's eyes.
(d) He went looking for Palinurus under the water and drowned too.

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

11. Who does Venus send to Carthage disguised as Aeneas' son?
(a) A huntress.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Vulcan.
(d) Her son, Cupid.

12. What omen does everyone witness when Acestës is shooting arrows?
(a) It begins to rain.
(b) There is a flash of lightning followed by a clap of thunder.
(c) A rainbow appears in the sky.
(d) His arrow makes a trail of flame and burns away to nothing.

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

14. Why did Dido's people take on a peaceful mood toward Aeneas' people?
(a) They were well known for always welcoming new people.
(b) They had heard great things about the Trojans from the Greeks.
(c) Queen Dido commanded them to welcome all new visitors.
(d) They were visited by Mercury.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Juno say Venus has made Dido fall in love with Aeneas?

2. How does Anchises act when Aeneas first comes to help him escape?

3. What does Creusa's ghost tell Aeneas?

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

5. Which of the following is NOT something Helenus advises Aeneas and his followers to do?

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