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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Juno plan to do in Book VII to stop Aeneas from ruling Italy?
(a) She will delay the wedding with Lavinia and destroy both peoples.
(b) She will bring down a plague on Latium until Aeneas leaves.
(c) She will spirit Aeneas away to another land.
(d) She will enlist Apollo's aid in frightening Aeneas away.

2. How does Turnus' acceptance of the challenge to fight in single combat make Aeneas feel?
(a) Full of anger that Turnus thinks he can actually match Aeneas as a fighter.
(b) Full of nervousness that Turnus might win.
(c) Full of sadness for Iulus' sake that Iulus won't get to fight any longer.
(d) Full of joy because the war will cease.

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

4. 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) He knows he will never have peace as long as Turnus lives.
(d) Allecto plants anger in his heart.

5. What does Drancës call on Turnus to do?
(a) Pay Lavinia's ransom.
(b) Go into exile.
(c) Relinquish his claim to Lavinia and meet Aeneas in single combat.
(d) Surrender himself as Aeneas' prisoner.

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

7. Why do the Trojans and the Latins call a twelve-day truce?
(a) So they can prepare for the wedding of Lavinia and Aeneas.
(b) Because a plague has broken out on both sides.
(c) So they can bury their dead properly.
(d) Because the gods demand it.

8. Who fills Tarchon with anger so that he will fight and lead his warriors better?
(a) Venus.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Mars.
(d) Phoebus.

9. How is Queen Amata turned thoroughly against the idea of Aeneas marrying her daughter Lavinia?
(a) The goddess Juno threatens her with destruction if she allows the wedding to take place.
(b) The goddess Allecto attaches a snake to her that poisons her mind.
(c) One of Aeneas' followers tells her the story of how he treated Dido.
(d) The goddess Venus influences her to save Aeneas for another bride.

10. What had Jupiter forbidden to happen?
(a) The Trojans to hole up in their camp.
(b) Lavinia and Aeneas to marry.
(c) Aeneas to ally with the Arcadians.
(d) Italy and the Trojans to go to war with each other.

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

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

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

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

15. 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 remove the Rutulian leader so Aeneas' soldiers can win the battle.
(c) To keep him from dying in the fight.
(d) To spirit him away to a temple to become a priest for her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Diomedes know Aeneas?

2. What mission do Nisus and Euryalus take on?

3. Who does Evander plan to use as Aeneas' new army?

4. What happens to the Trojans' ships when Turnus tries to burn them?

5. To whom is Camilla compared to as she fights?

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