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Humanities 120
Classical Mythology – Exam IV
Section I – Short Answer (3 points each)
This section of the exam is open book. Please answer each question as briefly as possible, using single words or phrases whenever that will suffice to answer the question. Do not make any answer longer than one or two sentences. Please make sure your answers are legible and complete.
1. What are THREE of Juno’s reasons for opposing Aeneas?
2. Which god takes the form of Ascanius to trap Dido into a love affair?
3. Name THREE places in the text in which the gods reveal Aeneas’s or Rome’s destinies. Name the page and chapter, but don’t just name the page or chapter. You must explain briefly what is happening in the story at these points.
4. In Book II, the ghost of Hector appears to Aeneas in a dream. In the dream, what physical objects does this spirit give to Aeneas? What do these objects symbolize?
5. In Book III, Aeneas discovers that a Greek city is now ruled by the Trojan Helenus, son of Priam, and Andromache, the widow of Hector. What is Andromache in the middle of doing when Aeneas first encounters her? You must explain it in your own words.
6. In Book V, during the sporting competitions, Aeneas displays both fairness as a judge and generosity as a king. Give one example of a decision Aeneas makes in this chapter that reveals both of these characteristics.
7. In Book V, how are the Trojan women talked into trying to burn their own ships? Name both of the goddesses involved and explain what they do. Give the names of at least one woman involved also.
8. How are most of the ships saved from burning?
9. How does Palinurus, Aeneas’s helmsman, die? For this, check both books 5 and 6, and read carefully!
10. What special object must Aeneas find and take with him to gain entry into the underworld?
11. Why must Aeneas perform a funeral ritual before he can enter the underworld?
12. In Book VII, as Aeneas and his people are eating their first meal on Italian soil, Ascanius calls out that they are eating their tables. Why is Aeneas so relieved by Ascanius’s remark?
13. Why is Hercules worshipped with special reverence by Evander’s people? What did he do for them?
14. When Nisus and Euryalus are caught in the Latin camp, why does Nisus fail to escape?
15. How does Venus convince Vulcan to make Aeneas’s new armor?
16. At the end of Book X, Aeneas kills the warrior-king Mezentius. Before he dies, Mezentius asks that Aeneas give him proper burial. Why doesn’t he trust his own people to do this?
17. When Latinus seeks an alliance with the Greek Diomedes, what are two of the reasons Diomedes gives for refusing?
18. Why does Amata, Queen of Latium, commit suicide?
19. In Book XII, what does Jupiter promise Juno, so that she will finally give up her hatred of Aeneas and his people?
20. What does Jupiter do to convince Turnus’s sister, the nymph Juturna, to leave her brother to his fate?