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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Venus use to convince her husband Vulcan to make armor for Aeneas?
(a) Tears.
(b) Threats of Jupiter's anger.
(c) The flame of love.
(d) Cool reason.

3. What causes the Ausonians to attack the Trojans?
(a) A snake startles them and a soldier striking at it causes everyone to start fighting.
(b) Trojan soldiers insult Lavinia.
(c) Aeneas does not show proper reverence to King Latinus' laurel tree.
(d) Iulus hunted and shot a deer he didn't know was a favored pet.

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

5. What do seers say it means when Lavinia's hair glows with divine fire?
(a) That she is destined to become the next Sibyl.
(b) That she will be famous and receive glory, but also bring war on her people.
(c) That she will die by fire.
(d) That she be taken up to Olympus to wed a god.

6. What does Jupiter promise Juno about the Latin folk?
(a) They will be allowed to keep their language and way of life.
(b) They will adopt all Trojan customs and ways.
(c) They will win the day and turn the Trojans from their land.
(d) They will be allowed to leave the land freely.

7. 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 attacked by the Furies.
(c) He is killed by Volcens' men while killing Volcens for killing Euryalus.
(d) He is struck down by Jupiter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Who is Aeneas mourning at the beginning of Book XI?
(a) Evander.
(b) Pallas.
(c) Mezentius.
(d) Lausus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pictures are shown on the shield Venus gives to Aeneas?

2. To which goddess is Camilla dedicated?

3. Why does Nisus surrender to the Rutulians?

4. What does the feast the Arcadians are having celebrate?

5. Who laments that only the head of Euryalus is brought back (on a spear) by the Rutulians?

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