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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Virgil do to prepare to talk about the warfare between the Trojans and the Rutulians?
(a) Provides the reader with information about the ancestries of the major warriors.
(b) Chastizes Allecto for helping Juno start this war.
(c) Calls on the Muse Calliope for help.
(d) Blames Juno for the upcoming bloodshed.

2. What is one of Juno's arguments for why it was right for her to have helped the Rutulians?
(a) The Rutulians are fated to rule, and she is just helping them fulfill that fate.
(b) The Rutulians made all the right sacrifices to her.
(c) She is spending an equal amount of time helping Aeneas.
(d) Other gods helped Aeneas by spiriting him to safety and turning his ships into nymphs.

3. What does Jupiter promise Juno about the Latin folk?
(a) They will be allowed to leave the land freely.
(b) They will adopt all Trojan customs and ways.
(c) They will win the day and turn the Trojans from their land.
(d) They will be allowed to keep their language and way of life.

4. Who tells Aeneas that Ascanius and the Trojans are under siege?
(a) The ghost of Nisus.
(b) The sea nymphs that were once his ships.
(c) The ghost of Euryalus.
(d) Jupiter.

5. Who is Aeneas told will be willing to fight with him against the Latins?
(a) King Evander and his Arcadians.
(b) Turnus and his Etruscans.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) King Latinus and his Latins.

6. What had Jupiter forbidden to happen?
(a) Aeneas to ally with the Arcadians.
(b) Lavinia and Aeneas to marry.
(c) The Trojans to hole up in their camp.
(d) Italy and the Trojans to go to war with each other.

7. With whose funeral does Book VII open?
(a) Palinurus.
(b) Anchises.
(c) Caieta.
(d) Misenus.

8. Who kills Pallas?
(a) Lausus.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Camilla.
(d) Turnus.

9. What is Iulus' first feat of arms?
(a) He shoots Remulus through the head with an arrow.
(b) He cuts down with his sword a Rutulian trying to climb into the Trojan camp.
(c) He fights Turnus with an ax.
(d) He uses his shield to protect another soldier from a rain of arrows.

10. What portent announces the arrival of Venus with Aeneas' new armor?
(a) A gentle breeze.
(b) A tongue of fire.
(c) A flock of doves.
(d) Flashing lightning and a thunder crack.

11. Who does Venus want to keep safe by removing him or her from the war between the Trojans and Latins?
(a) Lavinia.
(b) Ascanius.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Herself.

12. Who slays Arruns?
(a) Phoebus.
(b) Diana.
(c) Turnus.
(d) Opis.

13. Why do the Trojans and the Latins call a twelve-day truce?
(a) So they can prepare for the wedding of Lavinia and Aeneas.
(b) So they can bury their dead properly.
(c) Because a plague has broken out on both sides.
(d) Because the gods demand it.

14. How does Lausus die?
(a) He is cut down by Pallas.
(b) He is struck down by the gods for blasphemy.
(c) He takes his father's place in the fight against Aeneas.
(d) He is killed trying to kill Ascanius.

15. Which of the following is NOT one of the examples that Venus lists of ways that Juno ignored Jupiter's will and tried to form new destinies for men?
(a) She used Iris as a helper.
(b) She caused the women to burn the Trojans' ships on Eryx's shore.
(c) She asked Vulcan to craft a special shield.
(d) She used Allecto to stir up a frenzy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aeneas lose his temper and kill Turnus instead of showing mercy?

2. Who appears to Aeneas in a dream to tell him where to find people willing to ally themselves with the Trojans against the Latins?

3. What does Venus claim the Trojans would have been better off doing after Troy was destroyed by the Greeks?

4. To whom is Camilla compared to as she fights?

5. What does King Latinus propose to give to the Trojans?

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