The Aeneid Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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The Aeneid Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the soothsayer say it means when bees cluster together and weigh down the branch of King Latinus' laurel tree?
(a) That there will be a good harvest that year.
(b) That Latinus and his subjects must band together against strangers.
(c) That a special stranger will come with a body of men to take Latinus' fortress.
(d) That the tree must be cut down or Latium will fall.

2. What does Sinon claim is the reason he was left behind?
(a) He snuck away because he wants to help the Trojans beat the Danaans.
(b) He has been sent to the Trojans as an ambassador of peace.
(c) He escaped before the Danaans could sacrifice him in exchange for good winds home.
(d) He was left behind to spy on the Trojans.

3. Which of the following is not an excuse Aeneas offers to Dido for why he must leave her?
(a) He is not being deceitful because he never entered a pact of marriage with her.
(b) A messenger from Jupiter commands him to go against his will.
(c) His fate, oracles, and dreams all tell him he must go found a city.
(d) His men cannot protect her and Carthage adequately.

4. What does Neptune say must happen for Aeneas and his followers to have save passage over the seas?
(a) One life must be sacrificed.
(b) Venus must sail with them.
(c) Aeneas must find and give a pair of perfect horses to Neptune.
(d) Aeneas must promise not to go to Italy.

5. Why does Palinurus fall overboard?
(a) Somnus puts him to sleep and shoves him into the water.
(b) The boat lurches unexpectedly during a storm sent by Jupiter.
(c) He is drunk while on duty.
(d) He trips over Ascanius and falls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aeneas think when he spots Helen while Troy is being destroyed all around them?

2. Why does Juno say Venus has made Dido fall in love with Aeneas?

3. Why are Aeneas and his people supposed to settle in Hesperia?

4. How does Nisus die?

5. What did the god Saturn give the first people in Latinum to start their civilization?

(see the answer key)

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