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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who finds his or her way inside the Trojan camp at the end of Book IX and begins to massacre Trojans?
(a) Juno.
(b) Iris.
(c) Allecto.
(d) Turnus.

2. Why does Aeneas lose his temper and kill Turnus instead of showing mercy?
(a) Jupiter commands him to do so.
(b) He sees Turnus wearing Pallas' swordbelt.
(c) Allecto plants anger in his heart.
(d) He knows he will never have peace as long as Turnus lives.

3. What does Venus claim the Trojans would have been better off doing after Troy was destroyed by the Greeks?
(a) Staying with the rest of their people back with Acestës.
(b) Showering King Latinus with shiploads of gifts to win him over before meeting him.
(c) Building shrines to her everywhere they traveled.
(d) Rebuilding Troy instead of being pricked by fate to travel to Latium and enter into a new conflict.

4. Why does Nisus surrender to the Rutulians?
(a) He wants to betray Aeneas for money.
(b) He wants to save Euryalus.
(c) He hopes to spy on them for Aeneas.
(d) He is lost in the forest and they are his only hope of finding his way back to his camp.

5. For what does Juno blame Aeneas in regard to the current conflict?
(a) She blames him for leaving camp in charge of Ascanius.
(b) She blames him for the unfair advantage of his new armor.
(c) She blames him for relying on Venus' help.
(d) She blames him for trying to abduct Lavinia.

6. Who tells Aeneas that Ascanius and the Trojans are under siege?
(a) The sea nymphs that were once his ships.
(b) The ghost of Euryalus.
(c) The ghost of Nisus.
(d) Jupiter.

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

8. At the beginning of Book XI, how does Turnus say he wants to settle the conflict?
(a) He pretends that he thinks that the Rutulians should surrender.
(b) He wants to continue to fight until every last Trojan is dead.
(c) He wants to meet with the Trojans and write a treaty.
(d) He wants to meet Aeneas in single combat.

9. Why does Juno craft a phantom Aeneas and lure Turnus onto a departing boat?
(a) To let another Rutulian have a chance to lead.
(b) To keep him from dying in the fight.
(c) To remove the Rutulian leader so Aeneas' soldiers can win the battle.
(d) To spirit him away to a temple to become a priest for her.

10. What is one of Juno's arguments for why it was right for her to have helped the Rutulians?
(a) The Rutulians made all the right sacrifices to her.
(b) She is spending an equal amount of time helping Aeneas.
(c) Other gods helped Aeneas by spiriting him to safety and turning his ships into nymphs.
(d) The Rutulians are fated to rule, and she is just helping them fulfill that fate.

11. For what purpose does Virgil invoke Erato, the Muse of Desire?
(a) To help him describe the goddess Circe.
(b) To help him retell the history of the early kings of Latium.
(c) To help him talk about how Aeneas still mourned for Dido.
(d) To help him woo the goddess Venus.

12. Who kills Pallas?
(a) Camilla.
(b) Lausus.
(c) Turnus.
(d) Jupiter.

13. With whose funeral does Book VII open?
(a) Palinurus.
(b) Misenus.
(c) Caieta.
(d) Anchises.

14. What does the goddess Circe do to those she enchants?
(a) She sings to lure them into the water, where they drown.
(b) She makes them immortal.
(c) She leads them to the underworld.
(d) She turns them into beasts.

15. What does King Latinus propose to give to the Trojans?
(a) The battle of a lifetime.
(b) Chests of treasure.
(c) A region of land to settle or ships in which to depart.
(d) Turnus' head on a spear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ilioneus ask for from King Latinus?

2. What had Jupiter forbidden to happen?

3. What does Juno plan to do in Book VII to stop Aeneas from ruling Italy?

4. Who does the queen of Latium want her daughter to marry?

5. What does Venus use to convince her husband Vulcan to make armor for Aeneas?

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