The Aeneid Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Aeneid Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what is Helenus' city a replica?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Italy.
(c) Crete.
(d) Troy.

2. What does Aeneas think when he spots Helen while Troy is being destroyed all around them?
(a) He wants to carry her off and marry her.
(b) He wants to save her from her fate.
(c) He feels an impulse to kill her to punish her.
(d) He feels pity for her circumstances.

3. What danger do Aeneas and his men face by Aetna?
(a) Another flock of Harpies.
(b) The wrath of Juno.
(c) A group of sirens.
(d) A herd of Cyclops.

4. Who is Andromache's new husband?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Helenus.
(d) Pyrrhus.

5. What does Aeneas see depicted on the walls of the temple that the people of Carthage are building?
(a) Pictures of the gods and goddesses quarreling in Olympus.
(b) A map to the underworld.
(c) Portraits of monsters such as the Harpies and the Cyclops.
(d) Scenes of the Trojan War.

6. What does Aeneas promise to do if the gods grant his wish?
(a) He will name his new city after Jupiter.
(b) He will build a temple to Phoebus and Diana of the Crossroads.
(c) He will honor his mother Venus more.
(d) He will make a sacrifice to Juno.

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

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

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

10. Why has Dido turned her face against remarriage?
(a) She is pledged to Diana.
(b) She must wait until her sister Anna gets married first.
(c) She does not want any man taking over her kingdom.
(d) Her brother killed her last husband.

11. What does the plague that descends on the new city Aeneas founds at Pergamum tell the settlers?
(a) That this is the wrong coast to settle and that they should leave for other lands.
(b) That the settlers must practice better hygiene.
(c) That they are being punished for not defending Troy better.
(d) That the gods wish to make the city stronger by weeding out the weak.

12. When Dido sees Aeneas' men readying their ships to sail, for what does she plead?
(a) For them to leave plans with her people for how to build such wonderful ships.
(b) That they take her sister Anna with them as a guide.
(c) That they sabotage the ships to keep Aeneas in Carthage.
(d) For Aeneas to wait to sail until the weather is better.

13. Why does Acestës welcome Aeneas and his followers?
(a) His mother was Trojan.
(b) He empathizes with their sufferings.
(c) He is secretly plotting against them.
(d) Jupiter commands him to welcome them.

14. What does Sinon say will happen if the Trojans violate the wooden horse?
(a) They will face the wrath of the goddess Minerva.
(b) They will win the favor of the god Pallas.
(c) They will win the war against the Danaans.
(d) Nothing.

15. What kind of countryman is Achaemenidës?
(a) Etruscan.
(b) Trojan.
(c) Sicilian.
(d) Ithacan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Dido's people take on a peaceful mood toward Aeneas' people?

3. Why does Venus send a fake Ascanius to Dido?

4. How does Aeneas put out the burning Trojan ships after the Trojan women set them on fire?

5. What action does the goddess Rumor take after Dido and Aeneas begin to revel in each others' company?

(see the answer keys)

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