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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 he promised to aid Evander and the Arcadians.
(d) Because fate gave him this land for settlement.

2. Who is Aeneas told will be willing to fight with him against the Latins?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) King Latinus and his Latins.
(c) Turnus and his Etruscans.
(d) King Evander and his Arcadians.

3. Who does Venus want to keep safe by removing him or her from the war between the Trojans and Latins?
(a) Herself.
(b) Ascanius.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Lavinia.

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

5. How is Turnus spurred to make war on both King Latinus and the Trojans?
(a) Bacchus intoxicates his mind.
(b) Jupiter visits him and promises to help him defeat them both.
(c) Allecto plants a smoking torch in his body that fills him with a lust for war.
(d) Vulcan supplies him with weapons that cannot be defeated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Jupiter forbidden to happen?

2. Why do the Trojans and the Latins call a twelve-day truce?

3. Who fills Tarchon with anger so that he will fight and lead his warriors better?

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

5. Why does Juno craft a phantom Aeneas and lure Turnus onto a departing boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How does Jupiter ensure that Aeneas will win the combat with Turnus?

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

5. 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?

6. What arguments does Sacës use to persuade Turnus to return to the fight?

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 has King Latinus' method of dealing with the war changed since Book VII?

9. Examine the advice and prophecy that Faunus gives his son Latinus. Rewrite in your own words what he is saying.

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

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