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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. How does Arruns kill Camilla?
(a) Accidentally, with a misplaced axe swing.
(b) With a thrown javelin.
(c) He only wounds her.
(d) In hand-to-hand combat.

2. What does Venus use to convince her husband Vulcan to make armor for Aeneas?
(a) The flame of love.
(b) Threats of Jupiter's anger.
(c) Tears.
(d) Cool reason.

3. What does the soothsayer say it means when bees cluster together and weigh down the branch of King Latinus' laurel tree?
(a) That the tree must be cut down or Latium will fall.
(b) That Latinus and his subjects must band together against strangers.
(c) That there will be a good harvest that year.
(d) That a special stranger will come with a body of men to take Latinus' fortress.

4. What favor does Aeneas generously grant the Latin petition?
(a) He will speak to Turnus about ending the conflict.
(b) He will return Mezentius' weapons and armor.
(c) He will return their dead for proper burial.
(d) He will pray to Jupiter and the gods on their behalf.

5. What pictures are shown on the shield Venus gives to Aeneas?
(a) The acts that will make his descendants famous.
(b) Scenes from the siege of Troy.
(c) Scenes of the gods and goddesses seated peacefully in Olympus.
(d) Maps of Latium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Virgil do to prepare to talk about the warfare between the Trojans and the Rutulians?

2. What does Jupiter promise Juno about the Latin folk?

3. Who does Venus want to keep safe by removing him or her from the war between the Trojans and Latins?

4. Who slays Arruns?

5. What does Juno plan to do in Book VII to stop Aeneas from ruling Italy?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. Did Nisus and Euryalus act wisely when attempting to carry out their mission? Why or why not?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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