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The Aeneid- Virgil

front 1

Which of the gods is the staunchest enemy of Aeneas and the Trojans?

back 1

Juno

front 2

Who is the queen of Carthage, the city-state where Aeneas lands after the big storm in Book 1?

back 2

Dido

front 3

What was hidden inside the wooden belly of the horse left outside the Trojan gates?

back 3

Greek warriors

front 4

Who does not die in the sack of Troy?

back 4

Aeneas's son, Ascanius

front 5

What prophecy does the Harpy issue?

back 5

That the Trojans will eat their own tables

front 6

Where does Anchises, Aeneas's father die?

back 6

Drepanum, in Sicily

front 7

Who breaks off the love affair between Aeneas and Dido?

back 7

Aeneas

front 8

Where does Aeneas last see Dido?

back 8

In the underworld

front 9

How do the young Trojan boys participate in the contests in Sicily?

back 9

They exhibit their horsemanship in a mock battle

front 10

Who sets fire to the Trojan fleet in Sicily, the first time the ships burn?

back 10

The women of Troy

front 11

What token must Aeneas carry to be admitted alive into the underworld?

back 11

A golden bough

front 12

When Aeneas lands in Latium, how does he know he has come to the right place?

back 12

The Trojans fulfill the Harpy's prediction by eating their "tables" of bread

front 13

Who does not oppose the marriage of Lavinia to Aeneas?

back 13

Latinus

front 14

What symbolizes the beginning of battle for the Latins?

back 14

The opening of the Gates of War

front 15

How does Evander know Aeneas's father, Anchises?

back 15

Anchises visited Arcadia when Evander was young

front 16

Who makes the strong and beautiful new armour Aeneas wears into battle?

back 16

Vulcan

front 17

Why do the Trojan ships turn into sea nymphs when Turnus tries to burn them?

back 17

Because they were built out of wood sacred to Cybele

front 18

Who begs to be executed in place of his friend Euryalus?

back 18

Nisus

front 19

Who kills Pallas?

back 19

Turnus

front 20

How does Juno get Turnus away from battle and onto a ship?

back 20

She disguises herself as Aeneas and runs onto the ship

front 21

How long is the burial truce to which the two armies agree?

back 21

12 days

front 22

Which woman slays many Trojans in battle?

back 22

Camilla

front 23

Who, besides Dido, commits suicide?

back 23

Amata

front 24

What request does Juno make as she finally gives into Aeneas's fated victory?

back 24

That Italy inherit the Latin's name and language and not the Trojans

front 25

What counteracts Aeneas's impulse to spare Turnus's life?

back 25

He sees the belt that Turnus took from the dead Pallas

front 26

Why is Juno angry at the Trojans?

back 26

Because Paris didn't pronounce her the fairest

front 27

How is Anchises finally convinced to flee Troy?

back 27

He sees omens that indicate that he should leave

front 28

In Book 1, why does Neptune become angry at Aeolus?

back 28

Because Aeolus stirs up the waves, which are Neptune's territory

front 29

What are the names of the twin brothers, suckled at the breast of a wolf, who become the founders of Rome?

back 29

Romulus and Remes

front 30

How does Venus make Dido fall in love with Aeneas?

back 30

She sends Cupid, disguised as Ascanius

front 31

Why does Juno want Dido and Aeneas to marry?

back 31

Because then Aeneas's great city will be in Carthage

front 32

Why did Dido flee Phoenicia to found a new city, Carthage?

back 32

Because her brother killed her husband, Sychaeus

front 33

How does Aeneas resolve the footrace in Drepanum?

back 33

He gives everyone prizes

front 34

How does Creusa convince Aeneas to flee Troy?

back 34

She tells him he must fulfill his destiny to found a city and take a royal bride

front 35

How does the story that Aeneas tells Dido end?

back 35

With Anchises's death?

front 36

Who convinces Dido to succumb to her love for Aeneas?

back 36

Anna

front 37

Where does King Priam die?`

back 37

On his altar

front 38

Who is the one Trojan who urges the others not to bring the wooden horse inside the gates?

back 38

Laocoon

front 39

Why do the Trojans finally decide to bring the horse inside the gates?

back 39

They are afraid of arousing Minerva's anger

front 40

Why does Aeneas waken in the middle of the night during the fall of Troy?

back 40

Hector's shade appears to him in a dream to warn him

front 41

Why does Anchises carry the household gods out of Troy?

back 41

Aeneas feels that he has been defiled by battle

front 42

What woman does Aeneas almost kill during the fall of Troy?

back 42

Helen

front 43

Why does the tree in Thrace drip dark blood when Aeneas tears off the branches

back 43

A Trojan warrior lies buried beneath it

front 44

Which land does Anchises wrongly believe to be the destined location of their great city?

back 44

Crete

front 45

What curse does Celaeno, leader of the Harpies, place on Aeneas and his men?

back 45

That they will not reach their destined land until they have experienced such hunger that they are forced to eat their own tables

front 46

Who is Aeneas's pilot?

back 46

Palinurus

front 47

How does Aeneas's pilot meet his end?

back 47

He falls overboard and is stain by the natives on the island he swims to

front 48

What is the omen that will tell Aeneas that he has indeed reached the land where he is destined to build his great city?

back 48

A white sow and thirty white sucklings

front 49

What mortal do Aeneas and his men meet on the island of the Cyclops?

back 49

Achaemenides

front 50

Who are Scylla and Charybdis?

back 50

Sea monsters that Helenus warns Aeneas about

front 51

Aeneas and his fellow warriors have fled from what city which was besieged by the Greeks?

back 51

Troy

front 52

To whom did Virgil dedicate the Aeneid?

back 52

The Emperor Augusts

front 53

To whom does Aeneas tell his story of his flight from the war?

back 53

Dido

front 54

What does Anchises show Aeneas in the underworld which is the main theme of the book?

back 54

The personages that will be integral to the future glory of Rome

front 55

What does Dido do when her lover, Aeneas, leaves Carthage?

back 55

She commits suicide

front 56

What is the reward for the winner of the combat between Aeneas and the Turnus?

back 56

Marriage to Lavinia

front 57

What literary device is incorporated into the opening book of the Aeneid?

back 57

In media res

front 58

Which characters were with Aeneas when he fled his homeland?

back 58

His father, Anchises, and his son, Ascanius

front 59

Who is the king of Pallanteum, the site of the future Rome?

back 59

Evander

front 60

Who said the following: "You'll report the news/ To Pelides, my father; don't forget/ My sad behaviour, the degeneracy/ Of Neoptolemus. Now die."

back 60

Pyrrhus

front 61

Who said the following: "Every man's last day is fixed./ Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained,/ For all mankind. But by their deeds to make/ Their fame last: that is labor for the brave."

back 61

Jupiter

front 62

Who said the following: "What am I saying? Where am I? What madness/ Takes me out of myself? Dido, poor soul,/ Your evil doing has come home to you."

back 62

Dido

front 63

Who tells Aeneas of his destiny to seek his ancient homeland?

back 63

The oracle of Apollo