Aeneid Book 10

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1. When Aeneas hears of the death of Pallas he kills two people in cold blood that will cause problems for him later. Which two?

  • A priest of Diana and a son of Tellus
  • A priest of Apollo and a daughter of Faunus
  • A priest of Diana and a son of Faunus
  • A nymph from the woods and an Amazon
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2. How does Juno try to save Turnus from meeting Aeneas and a certain death?

  • She tells Juturna his sister to protect him by becoming his charioteer
  • She creates a phantom Aeneas and he chases it onto a ship which she lets float down stream
  • She gives him special armour

3. According to Jupiter in Book 10, what is the only legitimate war to be fought?

  • Carthage vs Rome
  • Civil War
  • Rome vs Egypt

4. Mezentius is wounded but why kill Lausus, his son who had entered the battlefield for the first time in his life

  • Aeneas simply cannot control his temper after the death of Pallas
  • Lausus had a misplaced piety and wanted to protect his father who was a tyrant
  • Lausus is impetous and thinks he can kill a warrior greater than himself.

5. After listening to Juno and Venus, what does Jupiter order them to do?

  • Not to fight each other
  • Not intervene in the fighting any more
  • To work together for the good of Rome

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