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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. What reason does Latinus give to Turnus for why the Rutulians got involved in bloody wars with the Trojans?
(a) Juno meddled in their lives.
(b) Turnus is an unruly hothead.
(c) The Trojans forced them to defend themselves.
(d) Latinus went against fate and allowed Lavinia to be promised to Turnus.

2. How is Turnus spurred to make war on both King Latinus and the Trojans?
(a) Bacchus intoxicates his mind.
(b) Allecto plants a smoking torch in his body that fills him with a lust for war.
(c) Vulcan supplies him with weapons that cannot be defeated.
(d) Jupiter visits him and promises to help him defeat them both.

3. Who laments that only the head of Euryalus is brought back (on a spear) by the Rutulians?
(a) Aeneas.
(b) Euryalus' sister.
(c) Euryalus' mother.
(d) Iulus.

4. How does Diomedes know Aeneas?
(a) Together, they stole the Palladium.
(b) He has heard tales from friends who traveled to Troy.
(c) They fought against each other in the Trojan War.
(d) Aeneas tracked him down to punish him for wounding Venus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Turnus think he can beat Aeneas in single combat?

2. Who fills Tarchon with anger so that he will fight and lead his warriors better?

3. How does Nisus die?

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

5. With whose funeral does Book VII open?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why would Aeneas' shield be covered with the deeds of his descendants?

5. What might Evander mean when he says that it isn't empty-headed superstition that leads them to celebrate?

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

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

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

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

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

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