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

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

3. 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) Blames Juno for the upcoming bloodshed.
(d) Calls on the Muse Calliope for help.

4. Who laments that only the head of Euryalus is brought back (on a spear) by the Rutulians?
(a) Iulus.
(b) Euryalus' mother.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Euryalus' sister.

5. 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 enlist Apollo's aid in frightening Aeneas away.
(c) She will spirit Aeneas away to another land.
(d) She will delay the wedding with Lavinia and destroy both peoples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the goddess Circe do to those she enchants?

2. To which goddess is Camilla dedicated?

3. What had Jupiter forbidden to happen?

4. Who is sent by Juno to Turnus at the beginning of Book IX to tell him now is the time to attack the Trojans?

5. How does Lausus die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Evander tell Aeneas about Latin history?

2. How does Venus use references to the Trojan War when meeting with Jupiter at the beginning of Book X?

3. What transition occurs around lines 46-47 in Book VII and how does Virgil handle this shift?

4. Why would Aeneas' shield be covered with the deeds of his descendants?

5. What are some actions that demonstrate the strong friendship between Nisus and Euryalus?

6. What does Jupiter mean when he says that to everyone (Trojan or Rutulian), he is the same king?

7. Who are the princes referred to in the book title, how do they die, and why might their deaths be particularly significant?

8. How does Jupiter become involved with the war in Book XI, and does this seem fair after he said before in Book X about being the same king to both Trojans and Rutulians?

9. Why is it significant that in Latinum, Aeneas and some of his followers eat the wheaten cakes they were using as plates for their meal?

10. What is the difference between what Arruns prays for and what he actually receives?

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