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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hides Aeneas' identity as he travels through Carthage?
(a) A huge bronze shield.
(b) A cloud of mist.
(c) A leather mask.
(d) A magic cape.

2. How does Aeneas transport Anchises out of Troy?
(a) On his back.
(b) In a wheeled cart.
(c) On a stretcher after the Danaans wound him.
(d) By pulling him along by the hand.

3. How does Aeneas know Antheus, Sergestus, Cloanthus, and Ilioneus?
(a) He fought against them in the Trojan War.
(b) He has heard tales of their great feats.
(c) They are fellow Trojans.
(d) He does not know who they are.

4. From whom will Julius Caesar get his name?
(a) Aeneas' sister, Ilia.
(b) Aeneas' daughter Creusa, renamed Julia.
(c) Aeneas' son Ascanius, renamed Iulus.
(d) Aeneas' grandfather, Ilium.

5. How do the Danaans get inside the walls of Troy?
(a) The Trojans carry the horse inside and Sinon lets the soldiers inside it out.
(b) The Danaans are still unable to breach the walls of Troy.
(c) While the Trojans are busy looking at the horse, the Danaans storm the front gates of Troy.
(d) The Trojans move the horse next to their walls and the soldiers use it as a ladder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anchises pray to the gods for?

2. What does Sinon say will happen if the Trojans violate the wooden horse?

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

4. What portent appears relating to Iulus?

5. Who will not be a descendant of Aeneas' line?

(see the answer key)

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