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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Aeneas trust he can approach Evander safely as a supplicant?
(a) Cupid has gone before him and won Evander over.
(b) A white pig in a dream tells him he can.
(c) They are related through their ancestors.
(d) Evander is an enemy to Juno.

3. 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) Other gods helped Aeneas by spiriting him to safety and turning his ships into nymphs.
(c) She is spending an equal amount of time helping Aeneas.
(d) The Rutulians are fated to rule, and she is just helping them fulfill that fate.

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. To which goddess is Camilla dedicated?
(a) Minerva.
(b) Juno.
(c) Venus.
(d) Diana.

9. 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 woo the goddess Venus.
(d) To help him talk about how Aeneas still mourned for Dido.

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

11. How is Turnus spurred to make war on both King Latinus and the Trojans?
(a) Bacchus intoxicates his mind.
(b) Allecto plants a smoking torch in his body that fills him with a lust for war.
(c) Vulcan supplies him with weapons that cannot be defeated.
(d) Jupiter visits him and promises to help him defeat them both.

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

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

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

15. What does Aeneas say will happen to the Trojans if he loses his fight with Turnus?
(a) They will renew the fight and claim the land that is rightfully theirs.
(b) They will be slaughtered to the last man by Turnus.
(c) They will go live with Evander and the Arcadians.
(d) They will rejoin the rest of the Trojans living with Acestës.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Juno blame Aeneas in regard to the current conflict?

2. What does the soothsayer say it means when bees cluster together and weigh down the branch of King Latinus' laurel tree?

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

4. Why does Turnus think he can beat Aeneas in single combat?

5. Which of the following is NOT something Vulcan and the Cyclops crafted?

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