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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Coroebus' idea for how he, Aeneas, and their companions can pass to safety?
(a) They will call on Venus to come save them.
(b) They will hide inside the wooden horse until the Greeks take it back outside.
(c) They will disguise themselves in Greek armor.
(d) They will escape through a secret tunnel under the city.

2. Where do malefactors live in the underworld?
(a) In the River Styx.
(b) In the Blessed Groves.
(c) Tartarus.
(d) Elysium.

3. Where do Dido and Aeneas become "married"?
(a) On a boat at sea.
(b) In a cave.
(c) At the ruins of Troy.
(d) At the altar of Juno.

4. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?
(a) For Aeneas to stop being distracted by Dido and her city and go build his own kingdom.
(b) He wants Aeneas to help Dido build Carthage into the finest city in the world.
(c) He wants Aeneas to stop praying to him.
(d) He wants Aeneas to do the right thing and marry Dido properly.

5. What does the fake Iulus make Dido forget?
(a) Her responsibilities as queen.
(b) The counsel of her sister.
(c) Her duty to help Aeneas.
(d) The memory of her dead husband, Sychaeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will bury Palinurus' body?

2. Which of the following is NOT a reason why Anna thinks Dido should make a match with Aeneas?

3. Who is the deity in charge of marriage?

4. Who does Dido send to plead with Aeneas?

5. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?

Short Essay Questions

1. What message does Anchises give Aeneas in a dream?

2. Why are Dido's suitors so angry when she takes up with Aeneas?

3. How does Aeneas fare as a leader in Book III? Support your answer with examples from the text.

4. How does talking to Anchises prepare Aeneas to go build a new city for the Trojans in Italy?

5. How does Anchises explain the process by which souls become reborn?

6. How does Aeneas feel about having to leave Dido and to what extent does he allow his feelings to influence his decision to leave her?

7. Why should Aeneas not have tried to found a city in Thrace?

8. Why might the Trojan women have been tempted to set fire to the ships even without Juno and Iris befuddling them?

9. Explain how Deïphobus died and why his body is mutilated.

10. What reversals of fate has Helenus faced?

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