Unit 5: Vergil, Aeneid Books 4, 6, 7, 11 & 12
Latin · Unit 5 · Paper 3

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 3” 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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Deiphobus

2

Dido's curse

3

The gates of ivory and horn

4

Scansion: the six feet

5

Subjunctive in cum clauses

6

Caesura

7

Palinurus

8

The cave and the "marriage"

9

Vocabulary: vis (irregular)

10

Indirect question

11

Charon and the unburied dead

12

Passive periphrastic

Short answer 1. Define or explain: The Sibyl at Cumae

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Elysium and Musaeus

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Vocabulary: pietas, pietatis (f.)

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Tartarus described but not entered

3 pts

Free response

5 pts

ANALYTICAL ESSAY (Question 3, 5 points). Passage A — Aeneid 2.559–564, 567–574: Aeneas, having just watched Priam slaughtered, is gripped by savage horror ("At me tum primum saevus circumstetit horror. / Obstipui..."); the image of his dear father rises before him as he sees the aged king breathing out his life from a cruel wound, along with deserted Creusa, his plundered house, and the fate of little Iulus. He looks around — his comrades are gone, leaped to the ground or dropped into the flames. Alone, he then catches sight of Helen ("Tyndarida aspicio") hiding silently at Vesta's threshold, lit by the fires; dreading the Trojans' hatred, the Greeks' punishment, and her deserted husband's anger — "the common Fury of Troy and her homeland" — she has hidden herself, loathed, at the altars. Passage B — Bellum Gallicum 5.37: While terms are being discussed, and Ambiorix deliberately draws out the conversation, the Roman commander is gradually surrounded and killed. The enemy then, in their custom, shout victory with a howl, charge, and break the Roman ranks. Lucius Cotta dies fighting with most of the soldiers; the rest retreat to camp. The standard-bearer Lucius Petrosidius, pressed by a great multitude, hurls the eagle inside the rampart and dies fighting bravely before the camp. The survivors barely hold off the assault until night; a few who escape make their way through the woods by uncertain paths to the legate Titus Labienus and inform him of what happened. In the two passages, we see reactions to defeat. In a well-developed essay, analyze the ways in which each passage portrays the responses of individuals on the defeated side. Refer specifically to the Latin THROUGHOUT both passages: write out the Latin and/or cite line numbers, and translate, accurately paraphrase, or otherwise make clear you understand it.

Write the analytical essay comparing how each passage portrays the responses of individuals on the defeated side, with specific Latin support throughout.