Test Bank Docx Legends Of Aeneas Ch.23

Chapter 23: Legends of Aeneas

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 23 - Question 01

1. Which of the following are entirely or mostly absent from the native myth traditions of Rome?

a. Divine myth

b. Legends of Roman heroes

c. Foundation stories

d. A creation story

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 02

2. One of the oldest known inscriptions in the Greek alphabet (found on a small island in the Bay of Naples) refers to _______.

a. a famous cup owned by Nestor in Homer’s Iliad

b. the pietas of Aeneas

c. Aeneas’ duel with Achilles in Homer’s Iliad

d. Heracles’ battle with Cacus on the future site of Rome

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 03

3. Wealthy land-owning families who formed the privileged political class at Rome were known as the _______.

a. patricians

b. imperii

c. fasces

d. plebeians

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 04

4. The executive branch of Roman republican government consisted of _______.

a. the praesidium

b. the tribunes of the people

c. the senators

d. two consuls

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 05

5. After Julius Caesar’s death, which two Romans conquered the senatorial armies and divided the world between themselves?

a. Cato the Younger

b. Octavian

c. Marc Antony

d. Brutus

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 06

6. In Latin, numina are literally “_______.”

a. protectors

b. spirits

c. nodders

d. switchers

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 07

7. What is the term for the legal transfer of something into the ownership of a numen?

a. sacrificium

b. coviri

c. res publica

d. imperium

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 08

8. Until the final victory of Augustus in 30 BC, the doors of _______ had stood opened for more than two hundred years.

a. Juno

b. Jupiter

c. Janus

d. Mars

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 09

9. Who was the numen who presided over women as members of the family?

a. Venus

b. Juno

c. Ceres

d. Minerva

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 10

10. Which of the following numina was an Etruscan import and associated with handicrafts?

a. Juno

b. Proserpina

c. Pluto

d. Minerva

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 11

11. _______ seems once to have been a numen of fresh water, but under Greek influence also took on the protection of animal and human fertility.

a. Venus

b. Ceres

c. Liber

d. Mercury

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 12

12. Which hero had numerous special cults, including the Ara Maxima, dedicated to him in the Form Boarium of Rome?

a. Evander

b. Hercules

c. Aeneas

d. Ulysses

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 13

13. Though similar, the Lares were always fixed to a specific location, while the _______ were portable.

a. Effigiae

b. Genii

c. Penates

d. Persollae

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 14

14. The head of a Roman familia, endowed with patria potestas, was the _______.

a. optimus pater

b. vir maximus

c. genius

d. paterfamilias

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 15

15. The Roman vision of the state as an enlarged family is perhaps most clear from the exaltation in myth of a set of duties called _______.

a. auctoritas

b. pietas

c. fortitude

d. sapientia

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 16

16. Like Achilles, Aeneas had a _______.

a. vulnerable heel

b. mortal father and a divine mother

c. divine father and a mortal mother

d. choice between a short life and eternal glory or a long life after which he’d be forgotten

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 17

17. Which of the following are among the places visited by Aeneas in his wanderings after his escape from Troy?

a. Delos

b. Athens

c. Thrace

d. Crete

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 18

18. Who accompanies Aeneas on his descent into the underworld?

a. The Sibyl

b. Numinor

c. Dido

d. Anchises

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 19

19. Which three things does Anchises list as Aeneas’ “god-given skill” as a Roman?

a. To impose good conduct on peace

b. To thrust the proud from the throne

c. To measure the heavens and tell the rise of the stars

d. To forgive the beaten and humble

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 20

20. Which of the following are among the differences between the epic poems of Homer and Vergil?

a. Vergil and Homer use different meters

b. Characters and events in Vergil’s poem are subordinated to a patriotic purpose

c. Vergil does not use many of Homer’s technical devices, such as fixed descriptive epithets

d. Vergil’s poem is painstakingly learned and marked by a literate self-consciousness

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Title: Chapter 23 - Question 21

21.

Which numen is represented on this ancient Roman coin?

a. Faunus

b. Silvanus

c. Janus

d. Liber