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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aeneas promise to do if the gods grant his wish?
(a) He will make a sacrifice to Juno.
(b) He will honor his mother Venus more.
(c) He will name his new city after Jupiter.
(d) He will build a temple to Phoebus and Diana of the Crossroads.

2. Why did the Trojans think the Danaans had left?
(a) The Danaans surrendered and promised to go.
(b) The Danaans hid their ships behind a nearby island.
(c) The Danaans set fire to their campsite and let it burn to the ground.
(d) The Danaans sent a letter announcing that they were leaving.

3. How did Polydorus die?
(a) Attacked and smothered by plants.
(b) Killed in a battle during the siege of Troy.
(c) Murdered by his host, the Thracian king, for the gold he held.
(d) Sickened by a terrible plague.

4. What is Coroebus' idea for how he, Aeneas, and their companions can pass to safety?
(a) They will call on Venus to come save them.
(b) They will disguise themselves in Greek armor.
(c) They will hide inside the wooden horse until the Greeks take it back outside.
(d) They will escape through a secret tunnel under the city.

5. What reason does Entellus give for why he didn't volunteer immediately to fight Darës?
(a) He would be embarrased to lose to Darës.
(b) He didn't want to take the chance to fight Darës away from Acestës.
(c) He is getting older and his body is slower than it was.
(d) He no longer believes that fighting is a good thing to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the crowd of refugees expect from Aeneas?

2. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?

3. Whom does Jupiter send to talk to Aeneas?

4. What danger do Aeneas and his men face by Aetna?

5. How is Anchises spending his time in the underworld?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the state of construction in Carthage in Book 1.

2. What fate does Laocoön meet and why?

3. Why are Dido's suitors so angry when she takes up with Aeneas?

4. Describe the Harpies.

5. How does talking to Anchises prepare Aeneas to go build a new city for the Trojans in Italy?

6. What ties Aeneas and his people to the land to which they are headed to settle?

7. Compare and contrast the Greeks with the Trojans in the affair of the wooden horse.

8. Why is Juno so angry with the Trojans?

9. What reversals of fate has Helenus faced?

10. How does Aeneas feel about having to leave Dido and to what extent does he allow his feelings to influence his decision to leave her?

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