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WL Test 1 Exam Practice Questions and Answers The Aeneid, Book 6: How did Aeneas come to know Misenus? How had this man died? - ANSWER- Misenus used to be Hector's right hand man. He died because he challenged the sea to a contest of blowing notes on a shell and Triton was jealous of him so Trit...

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WL Test 1 Exam Practice Questions and Answers


The Aeneid, Book 6: How did Aeneas come to know Misenus? How had this man died? - ANSWER✔✔-

Misenus used to be Hector's right hand man. He died because he challenged the sea to a contest of

blowing notes on a shell and Triton was jealous of him so Triton killed him.


The Aeneid, Book 6: Who sent the two doves to Aeneas? How did they assist him? Aeneas returns after

completing


his quest, bringing what? - ANSWER✔✔-His mother (Venus) sent the two doves and they led him to the

golden branch.


The Aeneid, Book 6: Meanwhile, his men complete the task the Sibyl had directed: notice the many steps

involved in this ritual. Upon Aeneas' rejoining them, he completed the final part of the ritual. What was

it? - ANSWER✔✔-The men had to pile up logs, set them on fire, wash and anoint the corpse, shroud the

body in purple robes, place the corpse and offerings on the fire, put the bones in a urn, cleanse everyone

with water, and placed the body in a tomb (Aeneas placed the body in the tomb with his arms, oar, and

trumpet).


The Aeneid, Book 6: How does the Sibyl calm Aeneas' fear about what he sees? - ANSWER✔✔-She tells

him that they are phantoms.


The Aeneid, Book 6: How does Palinurus clear Apollo of any wrongdoing in his death? What request does

this shade make of Aeneas? - ANSWER✔✔-Palinurus says that no god drowned him at sea but that he

fell off the ship and the savages on the land he landed on killed him. He requests for Aeneas to get him

off the shore he is on (by burying him).


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The Aeneid, Book 6: How does the Sibyl offer Palinurus some comfort? Notice how she assures him his

name will


live on (here we see an example of Virgil's connecting The Aeneid to his present culture). - ANSWER✔✔-

Sibyl tells Palinurus that the place where he died will be named after him.


The Aeneid, Book 6: In what two ways is Cerberus described as a threat to safe passage after the Sibyl

and Aeneas


reach land? How does the Sibyl solve that problem? - ANSWER✔✔-The two ways Cerberus is described

as a threat are his barking and his size. The Sibyl solved the problem by giving him a lump of honey and

drugged meal


The Aeneid, Book 6: What souls occupy the Field of Mourning? Why are they there? Whom among them

does Aeneas recognize? What is her reaction to Aeneas? To whom does she flee? - ANSWER✔✔-Souls

who died because of love occupy the Field of Mourning. Aeneas recognizes Dido and she won't make eye

contact with him. She flees to her husband.


The Aeneid, Book 6: Notice how Deiphobus' soul still shows the signs of its earthly suffering. What does

Aeneas tell this son of Priam he had tried to do to honor him? How does Deiphobus explain his death?

What famous Greek had a part in his demise? - ANSWER✔✔-Deiphobus' body is mutilated from head to

toe, his face and hands torn, and ears cut off. Aeneas built an empty tomb for him and sent a call to his

soul three times. He tells Aeneas that his wife and her lover killed him. The famous Greek was Ulysses.


The Aeneid, Book 6: How does the Sibyl distinguish between Elysium and Tarturus? - ANSWER✔✔-The

Sibyl tells Aeneas that to the left is Tartarus (she describes the entrance and how it is guarded by a Fury)

and to the right is Elysium.




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The Aeneid, Book 6: Though Aeneas never enters but only looks to the left where Tarturus is located,

Virgil chooses to insert a lengthy description of its inhabitants and their suffering. What attributes of an

afterlife for the sinful emerge from reading this section? - ANSWER✔✔-The sinful are forced to confess

their sins, one of the Furies lash the wicked, Tarturus itself goes down in darkness twice as deep as

heaven is high, and some get to sit in on a great feast and are burned if they try to touch it (all these

descriptions are from the book).


The Aeneid, Book 6: How does Musaeus explain why he can't give the Sibyl and Aeneas exact directions

to Anchises? - ANSWER✔✔-No one has a fixed home, they wander around


The Aeneid, Book 6: How had Anchises been occupying his time prior to Aeneas' arrival? Notice how

Aeneas' attempt to embrace his father echoes Odysseus' attempt to embrace his mother in The Odyssey.

- ANSWER✔✔-Anchises occupied his time by surveying souls


The Aeneid, Book 6: What "origin myth" or "creation story" of how all things came to be does Anchises

tell Aeneas? - ANSWER✔✔-"First, then, the sky and lands and sheets of water, the bright moon's globe,

then Titan sun and stars, are fed within by the Spirit, and a Mind infused through all the members of the

world makes one great living body of the mass." (lines 918-922)


The Aeneid, Book 6: How does Aeneas' father explain the state of the soul after death? Does the initial

state ever end? If so, how? Do all souls forever stay in Elysium, according to Anchises? - ANSWER✔✔-

Everyone goes through their punishment for the sins they committed until the stains of their sins are

gone. Some souls stay in Elysium forever. Some souls can be reborn.


The Aeneid, Book 6: The final section of the poem provides a record of Aeneas' descendants down to the

current ruler in Virgil's time. Notice that Anchises says he will "Teach [Aeneas his] destiny" (line 964).

What does he mean here since Aeneas knew his destiny was to settle in Latium? How does the first


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