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1. _____ [10] The Latins send an embassy to which great Greek hero in hope of an alliance? (a) Achilles; (b) Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus; (c) Diomedes; (d) Ulysses.
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C--we shall not hear of Ds reply until book 11, however. Diomedes expresses many doubts about the war, praises Aeneas and condemns Greek militancy. He calls Aeneas, "first in piety".
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2. _____ [51] For what purpose does Tiberinus appear to Aeneas? (Please select ALL the correct answers) (a) to warn him of Turnus' attack; (b) to command him to marry Lavinia; (c) to tell him where he is to start to build Alba; (d) to give him instructions on how to win the war with the Ausonians.
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C-D--T. tells Aeneas of the white sow and her thirty sucklings; and that he is to sail North to Arcadia, to make an alliance in order to defeat the Latins 51ff; 70ff).
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8. _____ [259; 273] What crimes is Cacus particularly adept at? (Please select ALL the correct answers) (a) murder and brutality; (b) blackmail and extortion; (c) robbery and theft; (d) seduction of young maidens.
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c--he is a noted brigand and robber. So, much of the story of Hercules is how he ridded the area of such criminals (like Julius Caesar).
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9. _____ [273] What brings Cacus into collision with Hercules? (a) Cacus rapes Hercules' wife; (b) Cacus steals Hercules' club; (c) Cacus robs the ambassadors Hercules sends to him; (d) Cacus steals Hercules' oxen.
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D.
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13. _____ [575] The armor of Aeneas was manufactured by whom? (a) mountain nymphs; (b) the Cyclopes; (c) a negro slave in the forges of Lerna; (d) Lapiths and centaurs.
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B--much here--a description of Vulcan's "shop," the details of the armor, are more detailed than the Homeric accounts. The dazzling armor is the product of Vulcan's hard work and the "blandishments" of Venus.
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14. _____ [625] Why are the Etrurians so willing to form an alliance with Troy? (a) because of a prophecy of Faunus; (b) because of their family links with the Trojans; (c) because of their hatred of Mezentius, ally of Turnus; (d) because of the powerful rhetoric of King Evander
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C-Mezentius is defiant, a hater of the gods, cynical, brutal. He was driven out by the Etruscans when he imposed horrible hardships on them .
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_____ [667] Too old for battle, Evander offers leadership of the Arcadian allies to whom? (a) Pallas; (b) Tarchon; (c) Mezentius; (d) Aeneas himself.
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A--Pallas is his son; from his mother (a Sabine) he has "a share in Italy" (8.665). E. charges Aeneas: "With you as master let him learn to suffer war" (8.667)
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17. _____ [874] Which historical figure is featured main stage on the shield of Aeneas? (a) Cataline; (b) Julius Caesar; (c) Augustus; (d) the Sabine women.
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c-Augustus. The description of the Battle opf Actium (on the shield) is a kind of cosmic encounter between Good and Evil, between chaos and order, between East and west.
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