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 |