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1. What does the Tiber river god tell Aeneas in a dream?
that the land of Italy is Aeneas' new home that a white sow with 30 suckling piglets will be a sign for Aeneas that Aeneas should seek an alliance with King Evander all of the above
2. What are the people of Evander's village doing when Aeneas arrives?
preparing for war, because they heard Trojans were coming celebrating a feast to Hercules looking for their stolen cattle holding funeral games
3. To whom does Aeneas trace his and Evander's common ancestry?:
Atlas Hercules Zeus Mars
4. To whom did the quiver full of Lycian arrows that Pallas now owns once belong?
Apollo Hercules Anchises Glaukos
5. Evander tells Aeneas about the time Hercules
cleaned the stables of Augeius killed a monster named Cacus was killed by his wife who mistook poison for a love potion brought Alcestis back from Hades
6. Where does Virgil say Evander's cattle are roaming?
in and out of the former cave of Cacus through the grove of Jove (Jupiter) through what is now the house of Augustus and temple of Apollo through what is now the Forum and an affluent neighborhood of Rome
7. What does Venus ask her husband, Vulcan, to do?
make a set of armor for Aeneas cause a volcano to stop the Tiber from flooding persuade his mother, Juno, to turn from her anger light her cigarette
8. What advice does Evander give Aeneas?
return to Sicily and establish a city there avoid bloody conflict at any cost seek alliance with the Etrurians, who are more numerous than Evander's men none of the above
9. Why, according to Evander, are the Etrurians eager for war with the Latins?
Turnus had stolen their cattle their wicked king, Mezentius, had taken asylum with Turnus the Latins had turned them out of their ancestral land Turnus had taken Etrurian women as slaves
10.What is depicted in the center of the shield of Aeneas?
the sea and the naval battle of Actium the twelve-tables of Roman law the sun, moon, and stars Aeneas carrying Anchises and pulling Ascanius by the hand
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