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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What favor does Aeneas generously grant the Latin petition?
(a) He will return their dead for proper burial.
(b) He will pray to Jupiter and the gods on their behalf.
(c) He will speak to Turnus about ending the conflict.
(d) He will return Mezentius' weapons and armor.

2. Who laments that only the head of Euryalus is brought back (on a spear) by the Rutulians?
(a) Euryalus' mother.
(b) Euryalus' sister.
(c) Iulus.
(d) Aeneas.

3. Who is Aeneas told will be willing to fight with him against the Latins?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) King Latinus and his Latins.
(c) Turnus and his Etruscans.
(d) King Evander and his Arcadians.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the examples that Venus lists of ways that Juno ignored Jupiter's will and tried to form new destinies for men?
(a) She used Allecto to stir up a frenzy.
(b) She asked Vulcan to craft a special shield.
(c) She caused the women to burn the Trojans' ships on Eryx's shore.
(d) She used Iris as a helper.

5. Who does the queen of Latium want her daughter to marry?
(a) Turnus.
(b) Jove.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Ascanius.

6. What false portent does Juturna send the Rutulians?
(a) Flashes of lightning that spell out Turnus' name in the sky.
(b) Jupiter's golden bird chased off by a group of smaller birds working together after it tries to take a swan.
(c) A crown of flame that encircles Turnus' head.
(d) A horde of snakes that drive the Rutulians closer to the Trojans.

7. What does the soothsayer say it means when bees cluster together and weigh down the branch of King Latinus' laurel tree?
(a) That a special stranger will come with a body of men to take Latinus' fortress.
(b) That Latinus and his subjects must band together against strangers.
(c) That the tree must be cut down or Latium will fall.
(d) That there will be a good harvest that year.

8. To whom is Camilla compared to as she fights?
(a) Circe.
(b) An Amazon.
(c) A Harpy.
(d) A Fury.

9. Who does Venus want to keep safe by removing him or her from the war between the Trojans and Latins?
(a) Aeneas.
(b) Lavinia.
(c) Ascanius.
(d) Herself.

10. Evander, unaware, is the founder of which of the following?
(a) The first military school in Italy.
(b) Rome's great citadel.
(c) The Lupercal grotto.
(d) The sacred wood of Argiletum.

11. What does the feast the Arcadians are having celebrate?
(a) When Dardandus left to found Troy.
(b) When the Arcadians defeated the Latins in battle.
(c) When Hercules slew the beast Cacus.
(d) The anniversary of Evander becoming king.

12. How does Arruns kill Camilla?
(a) He only wounds her.
(b) In hand-to-hand combat.
(c) Accidentally, with a misplaced axe swing.
(d) With a thrown javelin.

13. What does Virgil do to prepare to talk about the warfare between the Trojans and the Rutulians?
(a) Chastizes Allecto for helping Juno start this war.
(b) Blames Juno for the upcoming bloodshed.
(c) Calls on the Muse Calliope for help.
(d) Provides the reader with information about the ancestries of the major warriors.

14. What happens to the Trojans' ships when Turnus tries to burn them?
(a) They go up in ashes, trapping the Trojans in Italy.
(b) At the request of Venus, Jupiter causes it to rain and put the fire out.
(c) At the command of the mother of the gods, Jupiter turns the ships into sea-goddesses and sets them free.
(d) They are hidden from view in mist by Venus.

15. How does Juturna cause unrest in the ranks of the Rutulians?
(a) Disguised as Camers, she encourages them to think that they outnumber the Trojans and that they must fight to keep from being enslaved.
(b) Disguised as Turnus, she orders them to attack Aeneas once he is on his own.
(c) Disguised as Juno, she exorts them to fight like men.
(d) Disguised as Lavinia, she pleads with them to fight to save her from Aeneas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Venus claim the Trojans would have been better off doing after Troy was destroyed by the Greeks?

2. How does Diomedes know Aeneas?

3. What problem does Turnus face when he tries to attack the Trojan camp?

4. Who finds his or her way inside the Trojan camp at the end of Book IX and begins to massacre Trojans?

5. Who tells Aeneas that Ascanius and the Trojans are under siege?

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