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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who finds his or her way inside the Trojan camp at the end of Book IX and begins to massacre Trojans?
(a) Allecto.
(b) Iris.
(c) Turnus.
(d) Juno.

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

3. At the beginning of Book XI, how does Turnus say he wants to settle the conflict?
(a) He pretends that he thinks that the Rutulians should surrender.
(b) He wants to continue to fight until every last Trojan is dead.
(c) He wants to meet with the Trojans and write a treaty.
(d) He wants to meet Aeneas in single combat.

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

5. What does Ilioneus ask for from King Latinus?
(a) Food and supplies to send to the Trojans left behind with Acestës.
(b) Lumber and sails to repair their ships.
(c) A modest piece of land on the coast where the Trojans can settle.
(d) Soldiers and weapons to seek revenge on the Greeks.

6. Which of the following is not one of the ways Juno suggests Juturna try to save Turnus?
(a) To snatch him back from death.
(b) To start the war again.
(c) To convince Jupiter to intervene.
(d) To get the two sides to break the pact.

7. What does Aeneas say is the only reason he came to Italy?
(a) Because fate gave him this land for settlement.
(b) Because he was fleeing the Greeks.
(c) Because he promised to aid Evander and the Arcadians.
(d) Because he was invited by King Latinus.

8. What do Nisus and Euryalus do as they move through Turnus' camp?
(a) They slaughter sleeping warriors.
(b) They call on Venus to protect them.
(c) They bind their feet up in cloth to move silently.
(d) They make note of how many soldiers are there.

9. What mission do Nisus and Euryalus take on?
(a) They intend to go find Aeneas and tell him about the siege.
(b) They intend to go plead with King Latinus to stop the siege.
(c) They intend to find reinforcements.
(d) They intend to abduct Lavinia and bring her back to the Trojan camp.

10. Who does Evander plan to use as Aeneas' new army?
(a) The Ithacans.
(b) The Spartans.
(c) The Rutulians.
(d) The Etruscans.

11. 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.

12. What do seers say it means when Lavinia's hair glows with divine fire?
(a) That she will die by fire.
(b) That she be taken up to Olympus to wed a god.
(c) That she is destined to become the next Sibyl.
(d) That she will be famous and receive glory, but also bring war on her people.

13. For what purpose does Virgil invoke Erato, the Muse of Desire?
(a) To help him describe the goddess Circe.
(b) To help him talk about how Aeneas still mourned for Dido.
(c) To help him retell the history of the early kings of Latium.
(d) To help him woo the goddess Venus.

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

15. What problem does Turnus face when he tries to attack the Trojan camp?
(a) He is vastly outnumbered by the Trojan fighters.
(b) He can't locate the camp because the Trojans have moved it.
(c) The Trojans hole up in their camp and won't come out.
(d) King Latinus interferes and stops him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jupiter tell Hercules is the labor of the brave, since human lifetimes are so short?

2. Who does Aeneas convince to pledge to fight with him?

3. What does Aeneas promise to the Italians if he wins his fight with Turnus?

4. What happens to the Trojans' ships when Turnus tries to burn them?

5. What does the soothsayer say it means when bees cluster together and weigh down the branch of King Latinus' laurel tree?

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