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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. Why does King Iarbas pray to Jove/Jupiter?
(a) He wants Juno to stop bothering his country.
(b) He is angry that after he gave Dido land for her city, she has taken up with someone else.
(c) He wants counsel about how best to attack Dido's lands while she is distracted with Aeneas.
(d) He is good friends with Dido and wants Jupiter to protect her new love.

2. Who warns the Trojans not to trust in the wooden horse the Danaans left behind?
(a) Thymoetes.
(b) Tenedos.
(c) Laocoön.
(d) Achilles.

3. Who uses his or her powers to keep the Trojans lost at sea?
(a) Venus.
(b) Vulcan.
(c) Neptune.
(d) Juno.

4. How does Aeneas put out the burning Trojan ships after the Trojan women set them on fire?
(a) He calls on Aeolus to blow the fire out.
(b) He asks Neptune to cover the ships with tall waves.
(c) He prays to Jupiter and a storm comes.
(d) He must let the fire burn out on its own.

5. What does Ilioneus ask of Dido?
(a) For permission to woo her.
(b) To help them mend their ships or to let them stay in Carthage.
(c) For directions to Troy.
(d) To help them build a shrine to Venus .

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dido know that Aeneas plans to leave?

2. Why are Aeneas and his people supposed to settle in Hesperia?

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

4. What is Coroebus' idea for how he, Aeneas, and their companions can pass to safety?

5. What does Aeneas ask the gods through the Sibyl?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dido ask her people to do and what does she personally vow to do before she committed suicide?

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

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

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

5. What are Neptune's feelings toward Troy and toward Aeneas? How do these feelings affect Aeneas' journey on the sea?

6. Describe the Sibyl.

7. Describe the Harpies.

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

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

10. What reversals of fate has Helenus faced?

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