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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. What important things has Aeneas carried with him from Troy?

2. What atrocity does Pyrrhus commit in front of Priam?

3. What tale does Dido want Aeneas to tell?

4. What does Aeneas ask the gods through the Sibyl?

5. How do the Danaans get inside the walls of Troy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What message does Anchises give Aeneas in a dream?

3. What does Dido ask her people to do and what does she personally vow to do before she committed suicide?

4. What qualities of a good queen/leader does Dido exemplify? Cite specific examples from the book in your answer.

5. What are some instances where Aeneas betrays a hastiness in temperament in Book 2?

6. Why is Juno so angry with the Trojans?

7. Compare and contrast the Greeks with the Trojans in the affair of the wooden horse.

8. What instances in Book V reveal how the Trojans feel about burying their dead?

9. How does Anchises explain the process by which souls become reborn?

10. Describe the Harpies.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Aeneas and Turnus are, respectively, the protagonist and antagonist of the story. Compare and contrast these two characters using examples from the text to identify ways their actions and fates parallel each other and ways they are alike or different in their personalities and beliefs.

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of the following and compare and contrast their subject matter and what the information they depict conveys to someone examining them:

1) the pictures on the walls of the temple of Juno in Carthage in Book I

2) the pictures on the cloak Aeneas gives Cloanthus as a prize in Book V

3) the sculptures Daedalus created inside the temple of Apollo by the Sibyl in Book VI

4) the pictures on Aeneas's shield in Book VIII

5) the pictures on Pallas's sword belt in Book X.

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