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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. Who sends Iris to talk to the mourning Trojan women?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Aeneas.
(c) Juno.
(d) Dido's ghost.
2. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?
(a) That he needs her help to find his father's ghost.
(b) That he can bring her back to life now.
(c) That he left her lands against his will.
(d) That she should have waited becauase he was coming back for her.
3. What meaning does Anchises say the portent of four white horses can have?
(a) Both war and peace.
(b) Both fame and fortune.
(c) Both laughter and tears.
(d) Both feast and famine.
4. What tale does Dido want Aeneas to tell?
(a) The story of Eros and Psyche.
(b) How his parents met and had hims
(c) How Troy fell and how the Trojans traveled to Carthage.
(d) What happened to Odysseus during his Odyssey.
5. Why did the Trojans think the Danaans had left?
(a) The Danaans sent a letter announcing that they were leaving.
(b) The Danaans hid their ships behind a nearby island.
(c) The Danaans set fire to their campsite and let it burn to the ground.
(d) The Danaans surrendered and promised to go.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Dido know that Aeneas plans to leave?
2. Why do the Trojan women set fire to the Trojan ships in Book V?
3. Why did Misenus meet an early death?
4. What curse does Celaeno lay on the Trojans?
5. Whom does Helenus say Aeneas should visit for advice?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does talking to Anchises prepare Aeneas to go build a new city for the Trojans in Italy?
2. What fate does Laocoön meet and why?
3. Compare and contrast the Greeks with the Trojans in the affair of the wooden horse.
4. How does Priam compare and contrast Achilles and Pyrrhus?
5. 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?
6. How does Aeneas make sure that people notice his son Iulus?
7. What are some ways the characters in Book 2 are affected by fate?
8. What does Dido ask her people to do and what does she personally vow to do before she committed suicide?
9. What is the problem with Aeneas remaining in Carthage?
10. How does Aeneas demonstrate skill as a leader after the Trojans finally make it to shore?
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