The Aeneid Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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

The Aeneid Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Anchises act when Aeneas first comes to help him escape?
(a) He urges the others to escape and leave him behind.
(b) He is sleeping too soundly to be awakened.
(c) He is crying too hard to get any words out.
(d) He berates Aeneas for not coming to get him sooner.

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

3. What does Jupiter predict awaits Aeneas in Italy?
(a) A rematch with the same soldiers that destroyed Troy.
(b) Death and betrayal.
(c) A happy marriage with Queen Dido.
(d) A massive war followed by the establishment of a new city and a new way of life.

4. Why are Aeneas and his people supposed to settle in Hesperia?
(a) It is Venus' land and she promises it to them.
(b) The Greeks will never be able to find and attack them there.
(c) It is their true home, the land from which the forefathers of their people came.
(d) They only have enough food to make it that far.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What portent appears relating to Iulus?

2. What kind of countryman is Achaemenidës?

3. How do the Danaans get inside the walls of Troy?

4. What does the fake Iulus make Dido forget?

5. Who appears in a dream to warn Aeneas to flee Troy?

(see the answer key)

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