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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 Arruns kill Camilla?
2. Who tells Aeneas that Ascanius and the Trojans are under siege?
3. Who slays Arruns?
4. What does Aeneas say is the only reason he came to Italy?
5. What does King Latinus propose to give to the Trojans?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Jupiter ensure that Aeneas will win the combat with Turnus?
2. Under what conditions does Jupiter allow Juno to remove Turnus from the fight?
3. What are some actions that demonstrate the strong friendship between Nisus and Euryalus?
4. What might Evander mean when he says that it isn't empty-headed superstition that leads them to celebrate?
5. How has King Latinus' method of dealing with the war changed since Book VII?
6. How does Venus use references to the Trojan War when meeting with Jupiter at the beginning of Book X?
7. Why does Juno send Juturna to interfere with the war?
8. 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?
9. How might Turnus be turning into a mini-Achilles (as predicted) in Book IX?
10. What arguments does Sacës use to persuade Turnus to return to the fight?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One of the main characteristics of epic poems such as The Aeneid (and The Iliad and The Odyssey) is that the poem starts "in medias res," or in the middle of the action. The narrative then reveals information about what came before through various means, such as characters telling tales of the past or the narrator providing background. Discuss how this work begins in the middle, what information the reader is eventually given about what happened before, how this information is provided, and what effect this structure has on the experience of reading the poem.
Essay Topic 2
How are the gods and goddesses similar to and different from the human characters? Are they more moral? Wiser? More powerful? Address these questions as part of an essay on what kind of "people" the divine characters are.
Essay Topic 3
In Book XII, in one of many references to a place that had been built or civilized by the time he was writing but had not yet been constructed in the past, Virgil says that Juno was "gazing from the height we now call Alban--nameless then, it had no fame or glory." Use this and other examples of Virgil's mentioning past and present places to compare Rome at its birth in this work with the Roman Empire of Virgil's time. Address questions such as in what ways have the places changed, have they changed for the better, and what sorts of places are they that he bothers to mention?
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