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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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