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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Nisus and Euryalus do as they move through Turnus' camp?
(a) They call on Venus to protect them.
(b) They make note of how many soldiers are there.
(c) They bind their feet up in cloth to move silently.
(d) They slaughter sleeping warriors.

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

4. How is Queen Amata turned thoroughly against the idea of Aeneas marrying her daughter Lavinia?
(a) The goddess Venus influences her to save Aeneas for another bride.
(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 Juno threatens her with destruction if she allows the wedding to take place.

5. What is Iulus' first feat of arms?
(a) He cuts down with his sword a Rutulian trying to climb into the Trojan camp.
(b) He uses his shield to protect another soldier from a rain of arrows.
(c) He fights Turnus with an ax.
(d) He shoots Remulus through the head with an arrow.

6. 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 Iris as a helper.
(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 Allecto to stir up a frenzy.

7. Which monsters help Vulcan in his forge?
(a) Furies.
(b) Scylla and Charybdis.
(c) Cyclopses.
(d) Harpies.

8. What does Ilioneus ask for from King Latinus?
(a) Lumber and sails to repair their ships.
(b) Food and supplies to send to the Trojans left behind with Acestës.
(c) Soldiers and weapons to seek revenge on the Greeks.
(d) A modest piece of land on the coast where the Trojans can settle.

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

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

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

12. What betrays the presence of Euryalus to the enemy?
(a) A snapping twig under his feet.
(b) The gleam of his helmet in the moonlight.
(c) Allecto directing their attention to him.
(d) The noise of the clanking of the booty he has taken from Turnus' camp.

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

14. How does Nisus die?
(a) He is ripped apart while Volcens' men are retrieving the booty he stole from the Rutulian camp.
(b) He is struck down by Jupiter.
(c) He is killed by Volcens' men while killing Volcens for killing Euryalus.
(d) He is attacked by the Furies.

15. What reason does Latinus give to Turnus for why the Rutulians got involved in bloody wars with the Trojans?
(a) Latinus went against fate and allowed Lavinia to be promised to Turnus.
(b) Turnus is an unruly hothead.
(c) The Trojans forced them to defend themselves.
(d) Juno meddled in their lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What portent announces the arrival of Venus with Aeneas' new armor?

2. What does the goddess Circe do to those she enchants?

3. How does Juturna cause unrest in the ranks of the Rutulians?

4. How is Aeneas healed in Book XII after war breaks out again and he is injured?

5. Who is Aeneas mourning at the beginning of Book XI?

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