'The Aeneid' Test

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Major Event of Book 1
Aeneas arrives at Carthage/1st Prophetic Passage
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Major Event of Book 2
Fall of Troy
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Major Event of Book 3
Anchises dies
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Major Event of Book 4
Dido
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Major Event of Book 5
Funeral Games
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Major Event of Book 6
Underworld: 2nd Prophetic Passage, Aeneas meets his descendants
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Major Event of Book 7
Aeneas arrives in Latium
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Major Event of Book 8
3rd Prophetic Passage, 'ecphrasis' of Aeneas' shield
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Major Event of Book 9
Nisus & Euryalus are killed
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Major Event of Book 10
Pallas & Mezentius are killed
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Major Event of Book 11
Camilla dies
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Major Event of Book 12
Aeneas kills Turnus
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Who is our hero?
Aeneas
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Who is our hero's father?
Anchises
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Who is our hero's son? (Both names)
Acanius/Iulus
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Who is our hero's dead wife?
Creusa
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Who is our hero's future wife?
Lavinia
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Who is the mother of our hero's future wife?
Amata
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Who is Dido's sister?
Anna
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Who is our hero's love rival for Dido? (Jupiter's son)
Iarbas
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Who is Pallas' father?
Evander
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Who is the evil Etruscan King who enjoys strapping people to corpses?
Mezentius
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Who is the evil Etruscan King's son? (Killed by Aeneas)
Lausus
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Who is the bitter man who speaks against Turnus in the Latin assembly?
Drances
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Who is Turnus' sister?
Jaturna
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Who is Hector's widow?
Andromache
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Who is Hector's brother who is now married to Andromache?
Helenus
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Who is Aeneas' helmsman who falls of the ship and dies?
Palinurus
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Who is the Latin that mocks the Trojans in Book 9?
Remulus
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Who is Odysseus' companion who the Trojans find on the Cyclopes' island?
Achaimenides
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Who said: "on them I impose no limits or time or place"
Jupiter
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Who said: "it was against my will, O queen, that I left your shores"
Aeneas
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Who said: "we are even eating our tables!"
Ascanius/Iulus
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Who said: "fortune favours the bold"
Turnus
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Who said: "your task, Roman..is to pardon the defeated and war down the proud"
Anchises
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Who said: "I am afraid of Greeks, especially when they are bearing gifts"
Laocoon
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Who said: "a second Achilles is already born in Latium"
The Sibyl
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Who said: "Venus too has a son, a second Paris, and torches will again be fatal, for this second Troy"
Juno
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Who said: "now this second Paris, with eunuchs in attendance and hair dripping with perfume"
Iarbas
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