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The Aeneid

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1. Which of the gods is the staunchest enemy of Aeneas and the Trojans?

(A) Jupiter

(B) Venus

(D) Juno

2. Who is the queen of Carthage, the city-state where Aeneas lands after the big storm in Book I?

(A) Venus

(B) Dido

(D) Helen

3. What was hidden inside the wooden belly of the horse left outside the Trojan gates?

(A) Greek warriors

(B) Treasure

(D) A bomb

4. Who does not die in the sack of Troy?

(A) King Priam

(B) Priam's son, Polites

(D) Aeneas's son, Ascanius

5. What prophesy does the Harpy issue?

(A) That the Trojans will never make it to Italy

(B) That the Trojans will eat their own tables

(D) That Virgil will become the greatest Roman poet

6. Where does Anchises, Aeneas's father, die?

(A) Antander, near Troy

(B) Crete

(D) Drepanum, in Sicily

7. Who breaks off the love affair between Aeneas and Dido?

(A) Aeneas

(B) Dido

(D) Anchises

8. Where does Aeneas last see Dido?

(A) In Troy

(B) In Carthage

(D) In the underworld

9. How do the young Trojan boys participate in the contests in Sicily?

(A) They play an ancient Mediterranean form of lacrosse

(B) They have a wheelbarrow race

(D) They are offered as prizes

10. Who sets fire to the Trojan fleet in Sicily, the first time the ships burn?

(A) Jupiter

(B) Juno

(D) The women of Troy

11. What token must Aeneas carry to be admitted alive into the underworld?

(A) A golden bough

(B) A letter from his father

(D) The Sibyl

12. When Aeneas lands in Latium, how does he know he has come to the right place?

(A) The ghost of his father appears

(B) An emissary comes to meet him

(D) He has a vision of the future glory of Rome

13. Who does not oppose the marriage of Lavinia to Aeneas?

(A) Turnus

(B) Latinus

(D) Juno

14. What symbolizes the beginning of battle for the Latins?

(A) A sacrifice to Mars

(B) The donning of ritual armor

(D) The opening of the Gates of War

15. How does Evander know Aeneas's father, Anchises?

(A) Anchises visited Arcadia when Evander was young

(B) Evander grew up in Troy

(D) Anchises grew up in Arcadia

16. Who makes the strong and beautiful new armor Aeneas wears into battle?

(A) Jupiter

(B) Hercules

(D) Cupid

17. Why do the Trojan ships turn into sea nymphs when Turnus tries to burn them?

(A) Because Venus intervenes

(B) Because the nymphs had been trapped in the hulls for a hundred years waiting to be released

(D) Because they were built out of wood sacred to Cybele

18. Who begs to be executed in place of his friend Euryalus?

(A) Turnus

(B) Nisus

(D) Ascanius

19. Who kills Pallas?

(A) Aeneas

(B) Turnus

(D) Pygmalion

20. How does Juno get Turnus away from battle and onto a ship?

(A) She leaves a trail of bread crumbs

(B) She sends Iris to tell him the ship is burning

(D) She initiates a battle at sea

21. How long is the burial truce to which the two armies agree?

(A) 12 da

(B) ys24 da

(D) rs24 hours

22. Which woman slays many Trojans in battle?

(A) Lavinia

(B) Amata

(D) Camilla

23. Who, besides Dido, commits suicide?

(A) Amata

(B) Turnus

(D) Juno

24. What request does Juno make as she finally gives in to Aeneas's fated victory?

(A) That he have no descendents

(B) That Turnus be spared

(D) That Italy inherit the Latins' name and language and not the Trojans'

25. What counteracts Aeneas's impulse to spare Turnus's life?

(A) He knows Turnus will be ashamed to receive his mercy

(B) He sees the belt that Turnus took from the dead Pallas

(D) He wants to avenge Dido's death

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