The Aeneid Quizzes

The Aeneid Quiz 1

By Jordan Berkow · Edited by Adam Kissel · Last reviewed October 05, 2005

1 Why is Juno angry at the Trojans?

Because Anchises wronged her

Because she's evil

Because she's a patron of Aeneas's enemy

Because Paris didn't pronounce her the "fairest"
2 How is Anchises finally convinced to flee Troy?

He is wounded and needs treatment

He sees omens that indicate that he should leave

The troops threaten Aeneas's wife, Creusa

Aeneas is struck with an arrow
3 In Book I, why does Neptune become angry at Aeolus?

Because Aeolus sends two nymphs to taunt Neptune

Because he's in a bad temper over a fight with Jupiter

Because Aeolus stirs up the waves, which are Neptune's territory

Because Aeolus woos Neptune's wife, Venus
4 What are the names of the twin brothers, suckled at the breast of a wolf, who become the founders of Rome?

Hercules and Evander

Ascanius and Pallas

Romulus and Remus

Nisus and Euryalus
5 How does Venus make Dido fall in love with Aeneas?

She appears to Dido in Aeneas's form and says he loves her

She makes Aeneas unbearably handsome

She sends Anna with a love potion

She sends Cupid, in the guise of Ascanius
6 Why does Juno want Dido and Aeneas to marry?

To keep Dido away from Juno's husband, Jupiter

Because it will anger Venus, Juno's enemy

Because she thinks the wedding would be a great party

Because then Aeneas's great city will be in Carthage
7 Why did Dido flee Phoenicia to found a new city, Carthage?

To escape Mezentius's oppressive rule

Because Juno sent an omen telling her to do so

Because she no longer loved her husband, Sychaeus

Because her brother killed her husband, Sychaeus
8 How does Aeneas resolve the footrace in Drepanum?

He gives only Nisus a prize

He gives everyone prizes

He gives only Euryalus a prize

He gives only Salius a prize
9 How does Creusa convince Aeneas to flee Troy?

She tells him that he will be killed if he does not leave

She threatens him with violence

She tells him he must fulfill his destiny to found a city and take a royal bride

She sends Hector to plead with him
10 How does the story that Aeneas tells Dido end?

With Creusa's death

With Celeano's curse

With Anichses' death

With Palinurus's death
11 Who convinces Dido to succumb to her love for Aeneas?

Anna

Juno

Beroe

Queen Amata
12 Where does King Priam die?

In his bedroom

In Anchises' house

On his altar

On the outskirts of the city
13 Who is the one Trojan who urges the others not to bring the wooden horse inside the gates?

Sinon

Aeneas

Laocoon

Hector
14 Why do the Trojans finally decide to bring the horse inside the gates?

Laocoon convinces them to

They think it will look nice in their courtyard

Aeneas convinces them to

They are afraid of arousing Minerva's anger
15 Why does Aeneas waken in the middle of the night during the fall of Troy?

The household gods send an omen

Creusa runs in, screaming

Hector's shade appears to him in a dream to warn him

Ascanius awakens him because he is frightened
16 Why does Anchises carry the household gods out of Troy?

Aeneas feels that he has been defiled by battle

Aeneas is weakened from an arrow wound to his leg

Anchises refuses to allow anyone else to touch the sacred objects

Creusa begs him to because he is the only one who can be trusted with them
17 What woman does Aeneas almost kill during the fall of Troy?

Queen Amata

Helen

Queen Hecuba

Creusa
18 Why does the tree in Thrace drip dark blood when Aeneas tears off the branches?

Because Juno is trying to frighten him with an omen of war

Because Aeneas is cursed

A Trojan warrior lies buried beneath it

To warn Anchises of his imminent demise
19 Which land does Anchises wrongly believe to be the destined location of their great city?

Crete

Thrace

Drepanum

Cumae
20 What curse does Celaeno, leader of the Harpies, place on Aeneas and his men?

That Aeneas will be forced to suffer excruciating hunger that can never be satiated

That one of their party will die before they reach the land where they are destined to build their city

That they will not reach their destined land until they have experienced such hunger that they are forced to eat their own tables

That they will never reach the destined land
21 Who is Aeneas's pilot?

Ascanius

Achates

Pyrrhus

Palinurus
22 How does Aeneas's pilot meet his end?

He falls overboard and is slain by the natives on the island he swims to

He is picked up and carried away by the Harpies

He is slain by Camilla during the battle against the Latins

He is torn to pieces by Polyphemus, the Cyclops
23 What is the omen that will tell Aeneas that he has indeed reached the land where he is destined to build his great city?

A vision of a shield and a sword hanging in the sky

A white sow and thirty white sucklings

A burning bush

Three crashes of thunder
24 What mortal do Aeneas and his men meet on the island of the Cyclops?

Sinon

Achaemenides

Palinurus

Polyphemus
25 Who are Scylla and Charybdis?

Dido's husband and brother

Sea monsters that Helenus warns Aeneas about

The leaders of the Harpies

The king and queen of Drepanum

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