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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is Queen Amata turned thoroughly against the idea of Aeneas marrying her daughter Lavinia?
(a) The goddess Juno threatens her with destruction if she allows the wedding to take place.
(b) The goddess Venus influences her to save Aeneas for another bride.
(c) The goddess Allecto attaches a snake to her that poisons her mind.
(d) One of Aeneas' followers tells her the story of how he treated Dido.

3. What does Aeneas say will happen to the Trojans if he loses his fight with Turnus?
(a) They will go live with Evander and the Arcadians.
(b) They will rejoin the rest of the Trojans living with Acestës.
(c) They will renew the fight and claim the land that is rightfully theirs.
(d) They will be slaughtered to the last man by Turnus.

4. What does Aeneas promise to the Italians if he wins his fight with Turnus?
(a) Having proven his point that he is the greatest, he will leave and found his city elsewhere.
(b) He will let them continue to rule while the Trojans submit to everything they say.
(c) He will make the Italians the slaves of the Trojans.
(d) He will not subjugate the Italians, but rather both kingdoms will unite and live as equals.

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

6. How does King Latinus welcome the Trojans to Latinum?
(a) Sadly, because he knows their coming fortells his death.
(b) Gladly, because he wants Aeneas to marry his daughter.
(c) Duplicitously, because he plans to murder them and take their treasure and ships.
(d) Angrily, because the queen is forcing him to be polite to them.

7. How does Arruns kill Camilla?
(a) Accidentally, with a misplaced axe swing.
(b) He only wounds her.
(c) With a thrown javelin.
(d) In hand-to-hand combat.

8. What does the soothsayer say it means when bees cluster together and weigh down the branch of King Latinus' laurel tree?
(a) That the tree must be cut down or Latium will fall.
(b) That Latinus and his subjects must band together against strangers.
(c) That a special stranger will come with a body of men to take Latinus' fortress.
(d) That there will be a good harvest that year.

9. What does Juno plan to do in Book VII to stop Aeneas from ruling Italy?
(a) She will bring down a plague on Latium until Aeneas leaves.
(b) She will spirit Aeneas away to another land.
(c) She will enlist Apollo's aid in frightening Aeneas away.
(d) She will delay the wedding with Lavinia and destroy both peoples.

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

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

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

13. Who is sent by Juno to Turnus at the beginning of Book IX to tell him now is the time to attack the Trojans?
(a) Allecto.
(b) Neptune.
(c) Juno goes herself.
(d) Iris.

14. What does Drancës call on Turnus to do?
(a) Relinquish his claim to Lavinia and meet Aeneas in single combat.
(b) Pay Lavinia's ransom.
(c) Surrender himself as Aeneas' prisoner.
(d) Go into exile.

15. What false portent does Juturna send the Rutulians?
(a) Jupiter's golden bird chased off by a group of smaller birds working together after it tries to take a swan.
(b) A horde of snakes that drive the Rutulians closer to the Trojans.
(c) Flashes of lightning that spell out Turnus' name in the sky.
(d) A crown of flame that encircles Turnus' head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the feast the Arcadians are having celebrate?

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. 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?

4. What problem does Turnus face when he tries to attack the Trojan camp?

5. What do Nisus and Euryalus do as they move through Turnus' camp?

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