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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 win the day and turn the Trojans from their land.
(c) They will adopt all Trojan customs and ways.
(d) They will be allowed to leave the land freely.

2. How is Aeneas healed in Book XII after war breaks out again and he is injured?
(a) Venus slips dittany into Iapyx's medicines.
(b) Iapyx heals him without any divine assistance.
(c) Jupiter sends Apollo to heal him.
(d) Lavinia tends to his wound.

3. 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 caused the women to burn the Trojans' ships on Eryx's shore.
(b) She asked Vulcan to craft a special shield.
(c) She used Allecto to stir up a frenzy.
(d) She used Iris as a helper.

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

5. What does Venus claim the Trojans would have been better off doing after Troy was destroyed by the Greeks?
(a) Showering King Latinus with shiploads of gifts to win him over before meeting him.
(b) Staying with the rest of their people back with Acestës.
(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.

6. Who slays Arruns?
(a) Opis.
(b) Phoebus.
(c) Diana.
(d) Turnus.

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

8. 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 shoots Remulus through the head with an arrow.
(c) He fights Turnus with an ax.
(d) He uses his shield to protect another soldier from a rain of arrows.

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

10. Which of the following is not one of the ways Juno suggests Juturna try to save Turnus?
(a) To start the war again.
(b) To snatch him back from death.
(c) To get the two sides to break the pact.
(d) To convince Jupiter to intervene.

11. What does Aeneas promise to the Italians if he wins his fight with Turnus?
(a) He will let them continue to rule while the Trojans submit to everything they say.
(b) He will make the Italians the slaves of the Trojans.
(c) He will not subjugate the Italians, but rather both kingdoms will unite and live as equals.
(d) Having proven his point that he is the greatest, he will leave and found his city elsewhere.

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

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

14. What does Virgil do to prepare to talk about the warfare between the Trojans and the Rutulians?
(a) Provides the reader with information about the ancestries of the major warriors.
(b) Blames Juno for the upcoming bloodshed.
(c) Calls on the Muse Calliope for help.
(d) Chastizes Allecto for helping Juno start this war.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aeneas say is the only reason he came to Italy?

2. How does Diomedes know Aeneas?

3. Why does Aeneas lose his temper and kill Turnus instead of showing mercy?

4. What causes the Ausonians to attack the Trojans?

5. What does Ilioneus ask for from King Latinus?

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