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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dido kill herself?

2. Which of the following is not an excuse Aeneas offers to Dido for why he must leave her?

3. What does Jupiter predict awaits Aeneas in Italy?

4. How does Nisus try to help his friend Euryalus win first prize in the foot race?

5. How does Darës get Entellus to fall during their boxing match?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Aeneas demonstrate skill as a leader after the Trojans finally make it to shore?

2. What is the problem with Aeneas remaining in Carthage?

3. What fate does Laocoön meet and why?

4. How does Aeneas make sure that people notice his son Iulus?

5. How does Priam compare and contrast Achilles and Pyrrhus?

6. What sorts of souls live under Cretan Rhadamanthus' rule?

7. Once Aeneas is definitely leaving, what disagreeable options lay before Dido that make death seem the best choice?

8. Why is Juno so angry with the Trojans?

9. Explain how Deïphobus died and why his body is mutilated.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Latinus as a leader with Aeneas as a leader, taking into account what characteristics a leader should possess and examining each man's actions as a leader at different times in the story.

Essay Topic 2

The Aeneid is full of examples of images that pop up over and over again. Select one of the following and trace and evaluate examples of its use throughout the work:

1) thunderbolts and lightning

2) fire

3) hunting

4) snakes

5) storms.

Essay Topic 3

A bildingsroman is a work of art that tells of the development of a character, perhaps telling how the character matures or grows capable of taking on a duty as the process of a journey or a series of trials. Explain why The Aeneid is or is not a bildingsroman by examining how Aeneas does or does not develop over the course of it. Examine issues such as:

1) his capacity as a leader

2) his control over his emotions and temper

3) the wiseness of his judgement

4) his treatment of others.

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