The Aeneid Quizzes

The Aeneid Quiz 1

1 Why is Juno angry at the Trojans?
Because Anchises wronged her

Because she's a patron of Aeneas's enemy

Because Paris didn't pronounce her the "fairest"

Because she's evil
2 How is Anchises finally convinced to flee Troy?
The troops threaten Aeneas's wife, Creusa

Aeneas is struck with an arrow

He sees omens that indicate that he should leave

He is wounded and needs treatment
3 In Book I, why does Neptune become angry at Aeolus?
Because Aeolus stirs up the waves, which are Neptune's territory

Because Aeolus woos Neptune's wife, Venus

Because Aeolus sends two nymphs to taunt Neptune

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

Nisus and Euryalus

Romulus and Remus

Ascanius and Pallas
5 How does Venus make Dido fall in love with Aeneas?
She makes Aeneas unbearably handsome

She sends Cupid, in the guise of Ascanius

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

She sends Anna with a love potion
6 Why does Juno want Dido and Aeneas to marry?
Because then Aeneas's great city will be in Carthage

Because she thinks the wedding would be a great party

Because it will anger Venus, Juno's enemy

To keep Dido away from Juno's husband, Jupiter
7 Why did Dido flee Phoenicia to found a new city, Carthage?
Because she no longer loved her husband, Sychaeus

Because her brother killed her husband, Sychaeus

To escape Mezentius's oppressive rule

Because Juno sent an omen telling her to do so
8 How does Aeneas resolve the footrace in Drepanum?
He gives only Salius a prize

He gives everyone prizes

He gives only Euryalus a prize

He gives only Nisus a prize
9 How does Creusa convince Aeneas to flee Troy?
She sends Hector to plead with him

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

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

She threatens him with violence
10 How does the story that Aeneas tells Dido end?
With Palinurus's death

With Anichses' death

With Celeano's curse

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

Anna

Queen Amata

Juno
12 Where does King Priam die?
In Anchises' house

On the outskirts of the city

In his bedroom

On his altar
13 Who is the one Trojan who urges the others not to bring the wooden horse inside the gates?
Hector

Sinon

Aeneas

Laocoon
14 Why do the Trojans finally decide to bring the horse inside the gates?
They think it will look nice in their courtyard

They are afraid of arousing Minerva's anger

Laocoon convinces them to

Aeneas convinces them to
15 Why does Aeneas waken in the middle of the night during the fall of Troy?
Hector's shade appears to him in a dream to warn him

Ascanius awakens him because he is frightened

Creusa runs in, screaming

The household gods send an omen
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 Hecuba

Creusa

Queen Amata

Helen
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

To warn Anchises of his imminent demise

A Trojan warrior lies buried beneath it

Because Aeneas is cursed
19 Which land does Anchises wrongly believe to be the destined location of their great city?
Thrace

Crete

Cumae

Drepanum
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 they will never reach the destined land

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
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 slain by Camilla during the battle against the Latins

He is torn to pieces by Polyphemus, the Cyclops

He is picked up and carried away by the Harpies
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?
Three crashes of thunder

A white sow and thirty white sucklings

A burning bush

A vision of a shield and a sword hanging in the sky
24 What mortal do Aeneas and his men meet on the island of the Cyclops?
Palinurus

Polyphemus

Achaemenides

Sinon
25 Who are Scylla and Charybdis?
The king and queen of Drepanum

Dido's husband and brother

Sea monsters that Helenus warns Aeneas about

The leaders of the Harpies

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Aeneas pays proper respect to the gods and strives to always do his duty.

He is the son of Venus,

Aeneas makes purposeful visits to his home. Troy holds his allegiance, as does his family.

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The Aeneid

by Virgil

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