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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 does Drancës call on Turnus to do?
2. Why do the Trojans and the Latins call a twelve-day truce?
3. What does Venus use to convince her husband Vulcan to make armor for Aeneas?
4. What causes the Ausonians to attack the Trojans?
5. How does Turnus' acceptance of the challenge to fight in single combat make Aeneas feel?
Short Essay Questions
1. How might Turnus be turning into a mini-Achilles (as predicted) in Book IX?
2. Why is it significant that in Latinum, Aeneas and some of his followers eat the wheaten cakes they were using as plates for their meal?
3. What arguments does Sacës use to persuade Turnus to return to the fight?
4. Describe Latinus' actions once he sees his people fighting with the Trojans.
5. What false portent does Juturna send the Rutulians and how do they interpret it?
6. 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?
7. What transition occurs around lines 46-47 in Book VII and how does Virgil handle this shift?
8. What might Evander mean when he says that it isn't empty-headed superstition that leads them to celebrate?
9. What does Jupiter mean when he says that to everyone (Trojan or Rutulian), he is the same king?
10. Why would Aeneas' shield be covered with the deeds of his descendants?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What role do the Muses play in the telling of this tale? When and why does Virgil call upon them? Upon which particular Muses does he rely?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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