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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 do the Trojans and the Latins call a twelve-day truce?
(a) So they can bury their dead properly.
(b) Because the gods demand it.
(c) Because a plague has broken out on both sides.
(d) So they can prepare for the wedding of Lavinia and Aeneas.

2. What do seers say it means when Lavinia's hair glows with divine fire?
(a) That she will be famous and receive glory, but also bring war on her people.
(b) That she will die by fire.
(c) That she be taken up to Olympus to wed a god.
(d) That she is destined to become the next Sibyl.

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

4. With whose funeral does Book VII open?
(a) Anchises.
(b) Palinurus.
(c) Caieta.
(d) Misenus.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Evander, unaware, is the founder of which of the following?

3. Who does the queen of Latium want her daughter to marry?

4. For what purpose does Virgil invoke Erato, the Muse of Desire?

5. What does Venus claim the Trojans would have been better off doing after Troy was destroyed by the Greeks?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Venus use references to the Trojan War when meeting with Jupiter at the beginning of Book X?

2. How has King Latinus' method of dealing with the war changed since Book VII?

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

4. What does Jupiter mean when he says that to everyone (Trojan or Rutulian), he is the same king?

5. Why is it significant that in Latinum, Aeneas and some of his followers eat the wheaten cakes they were using as plates for their meal?

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

7. What arguments does Sacës use to persuade Turnus to return to the fight?

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

9. Examine the advice and prophecy that Faunus gives his son Latinus. Rewrite in your own words what he is saying.

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

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