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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 Aeneas trust he can approach Evander safely as a supplicant?
(a) They are related through their ancestors.
(b) A white pig in a dream tells him he can.
(c) Cupid has gone before him and won Evander over.
(d) Evander is an enemy to Juno.

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

3. 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) Chastizes Allecto for helping Juno start this war.
(c) Calls on the Muse Calliope for help.
(d) Blames Juno for the upcoming bloodshed.

4. What does Aeneas say will happen to the Trojans if he loses his fight with Turnus?
(a) They will rejoin the rest of the Trojans living with Acestës.
(b) They will renew the fight and claim the land that is rightfully theirs.
(c) They will be slaughtered to the last man by Turnus.
(d) They will go live with Evander and the Arcadians.

5. What false portent does Juturna send the Rutulians?
(a) A horde of snakes that drive the Rutulians closer to the Trojans.
(b) Jupiter's golden bird chased off by a group of smaller birds working together after it tries to take a swan.
(c) Flashes of lightning that spell out Turnus' name in the sky.
(d) A crown of flame that encircles Turnus' head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Evander plan to use as Aeneas' new army?

2. What is one of Juno's arguments for why it was right for her to have helped the Rutulians?

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

4. Why do the Trojans and the Latins call a twelve-day truce?

5. What does the soothsayer say it means when bees cluster together and weigh down the branch of King Latinus' laurel tree?

Short Essay Questions

1. How might Turnus be turning into a mini-Achilles (as predicted) in Book IX?

2. What transition occurs around lines 46-47 in Book VII and how does Virgil handle this shift?

3. What false portent does Juturna send the Rutulians and how do they interpret it?

4. Why does Juno send Juturna to interfere with the war?

5. What does Evander tell Aeneas about Latin history?

6. What is the difference between what Arruns prays for and what he actually receives?

7. Who are the princes referred to in the book title, how do they die, and why might their deaths be particularly significant?

8. How does Jupiter ensure that Aeneas will win the combat with Turnus?

9. How does Jupiter become involved with the war in Book XI, and does this seem fair after he said before in Book X about being the same king to both Trojans and Rutulians?

10. What does the use of Iris as a messenger at the end of Book IX tell the reader about the balance of power between the gods?

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