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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 had Jupiter forbidden to happen?

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

3. What mission do Nisus and Euryalus take on?

4. Who does the queen of Latium want her daughter to marry?

5. Who is Aeneas told will be willing to fight with him against the Latins?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Evander mean when he tells Aeneas that Aeneas must have the courage to shape himself to fit through the low doorway into Evander's humble home, besides the literal fact that Aeneas is too tall to walk through the doorway without stooping a bit?

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

6. Examine the advice and prophecy that Faunus gives his son Latinus. Rewrite in your own words what he is saying.

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

8. What are some actions that demonstrate the strong friendship between Nisus and Euryalus?

9. 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?

10. What does Jupiter mean when he says that to everyone (Trojan or Rutulian), he is the same king?

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

Similes and other detailed descriptions help the reader picture and understand things about the settings, characters, and events of this work. Identify an example of a simile being used to describe each of these three things and explain how it is used, what effect it has, and why Virgil might have used that particular simile in that particular place.

Essay Topic 3

How well do you think Aeneas would have been able to fulfill his fate without the help of gods and goddesses? As you answer, take into account the actions of divine beings working against him. If there had been no divine interaction on either side, what might have been the final outcome and why?

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