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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 Jupiter want from Aeneas?
(a) He wants Aeneas to stop praying to him.
(b) He wants Aeneas to do the right thing and marry Dido properly.
(c) He wants Aeneas to help Dido build Carthage into the finest city in the world.
(d) For Aeneas to stop being distracted by Dido and her city and go build his own kingdom.

2. How does Aeneas transport Anchises out of Troy?
(a) On a stretcher after the Danaans wound him.
(b) In a wheeled cart.
(c) On his back.
(d) By pulling him along by the hand.

3. What does Sinon say will happen if the Trojans violate the wooden horse?
(a) They will face the wrath of the goddess Minerva.
(b) They will win the war against the Danaans.
(c) They will win the favor of the god Pallas.
(d) Nothing.

4. When Aeneas and the Trojans land in Sicily at the beginning of Book V, a year has passed since which important event?
(a) The death of Anchises.
(b) The fall of Troy.
(c) Paris taking Helen.
(d) Leaving Dido's city.

5. How does Dido's ghost react to seeing Aeneas?
(a) She falls to her knees and pleads with him to take her away with him.
(b) She flees from him and returns to her first husband, Sychaeus.
(c) She smiles and tells him all is forgiven.
(d) She reenacts her suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What curse does Celaeno lay on the Trojans?

2. Which of the following is NOT something Helenus advises Aeneas and his followers to do?

3. What is the job of the Sibyl?

4. What hides Aeneas' identity as he travels through Carthage?

5. What action does the goddess Rumor take after Dido and Aeneas begin to revel in each others' company?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What fate does Laocoön meet and why?

3. Why should Aeneas not have tried to found a city in Thrace?

4. 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?

5. What does Dido ask her people to do and what does she personally vow to do before she committed suicide?

6. What are Neptune's feelings toward Troy and toward Aeneas? How do these feelings affect Aeneas' journey on the sea?

7. What qualities of a good queen/leader does Dido exemplify? Cite specific examples from the book in your answer.

8. How will Aeneas start the line that turns into the rulers of the Roman Empire?

9. How does Aeneas make sure that people notice his son Iulus?

10. What reversals of fate has Helenus faced?

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