Unit 5: Vergil, Aeneid Books 4, 6, 7, 11 & 12
Latin · Unit 5 · Paper 1

Vergil, Aeneid Books 4, 6, 7, 11 & 12 unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 48 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 5, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 32 min 29 points0/17 attempted
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Dido's death

2

Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem

3

Laocoön and the serpents

4

Vocabulary: manus, manūs (f.)

5

Tartarus described but not entered

6

The golden bough

7

Sequence of tenses

8

Caesura

9

Diaeresis

10

Sinon

11

Litotes

12

Apostrophe in Vergil

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Deiphobus

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Result clauses

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: The Parade of Heroes

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: The cave and the "marriage"

3 pts

Free response

5 pts

ANALYTICAL ESSAY (5 points). Passage A — Aeneid 4.651–658. Dido, about to take her own life, addresses the belongings Aeneas left behind: "Dulces exuviae, dum fata deusque sinebat, accipite hanc animam meque his exsolvite curis. Vixi et quem dederat cursum Fortuna peregi, et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit imago. Urbem praeclaram statui, mea moenia vidi, ulta virum poenas inimico a fratre recepi, felix, heu nimium felix, si litora tantum numquam Dardaniae tetigissent nostra carinae." Passage B — Aeneid 6.469–471. In the Underworld, Aeneas addresses Dido's shade and receives no answer: illa solo fixos oculos aversa tenebat nec magis incepto vultum sermone movetur quam si dura silex aut stet Marpesia cautes. In a well-developed essay, analyze how Vergil uses these two passages to characterize Dido. Refer specifically to the Latin throughout, citing the Latin that supports each point and translating or closely paraphrasing it.