The Aeneid Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 165 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Aeneid Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following must Aeneas do to enter the underworld?
(a) He must find and follow Orpheus down.
(b) He must pick the golden bough.
(c) He must wait for Venus to come take him.
(d) He must wrestle the gatekeeper and win.

2. How does Dido's ghost react to seeing Aeneas?
(a) She smiles and tells him all is forgiven.
(b) She reenacts her suicide.
(c) She flees from him and returns to her first husband, Sychaeus.
(d) She falls to her knees and pleads with him to take her away with him.

3. What does the goddess Circe do to those she enchants?
(a) She turns them into beasts.
(b) She makes them immortal.
(c) She leads them to the underworld.
(d) She sings to lure them into the water, where they drown.

4. What does Aeneas tell the ghost of Dido?
(a) That he can bring her back to life now.
(b) That he left her lands against his will.
(c) That he needs her help to find his father's ghost.
(d) That she should have waited becauase he was coming back for her.

5. What does Jupiter want from Aeneas?
(a) He wants Aeneas to do the right thing and marry Dido properly.
(b) For Aeneas to stop being distracted by Dido and her city and go build his own kingdom.
(c) He wants Aeneas to help Dido build Carthage into the finest city in the world.
(d) He wants Aeneas to stop praying to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What atrocity does Pyrrhus commit in front of Priam?

2. For whom does Aeneas return to Troy to search?

3. Who does the queen of Latium want her daughter to marry?

4. What important things has Aeneas carried with him from Troy?

5. Which of the following is not an excuse Aeneas offers to Dido for why he must leave her?

(see the answer key)

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