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Aeneid

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Introduction
A Brief Synopsis
List of Characters
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Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Book XI
Book XII

Character Analyses

Aeneas
Dido
Turnus

Critical Essays

Literary Predecessors of the Aeneid
The Aeneid As a National Epic

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1:  What literary device is incorporated in the opening book of the Aeneid?

a. In media res

b. Satire

c. Irony

d. Sarcasm
2:  Aeneas and his fellow warriors have fled from what city which was besieged by the Greeks?

a. Alexandria

b. Carthage

c. Troy

d. Thrace
3:  To whom does Aeneas tell his story of his flight from the war?

a. Dido

b. Creusa

c. Palinurus

d. Venus
4:  To whom did Virgil dedicate the Aeneid?

a. Venus

b. Homer

c. The Emperor Augustus

d. Jupiter
5:  Which characters were with Aeneas when he fled his homeland?

a. His father, Anchises, his son, Ascanius, and his wife, Creusa

b. His father, Anchises, and his son, Ascanius

c. His father, Anchises, and his wife, Creusa

d. His son, Ascanius, and his wife, Creusa
6:  Who tells Aeneas of his destiny to seek his ancient homeland?

a. The oracle of Apollo

b. The ghost of Priam’s son

c. His mother, Venus

d. Dido
7:  What does Dido do when her lover, Aeneas, leaves Carthage?

a. She threatens the life of his father.

b. She sets fire to his ships.

c. She tries to kill him.

d. She commits suicide.
8:  What does Anchises show Aeneas in the underworld which is the main theme of the book?

a. The parade of martyrs that will bring about many years of unrest

b. The vengeful nature of the Carthaginians that will spur the Punic Wars

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

d. Dido, and the meaning of her death
9:  Who is the king of Pallanteum, the site of the future Rome?

a. Turnus

b. Latinus

c. Helenus

d. Evander
10:  What is the reward for the winner of the combat between Aeneas and Turnus?

a. Wealth and riches

b. Marriage to Lavinia

c. Protection of Juno

d. The release of his fellow warriors
11:  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.”

a. Dido

b. Lavinia

c. Venus

d. Amata
12:  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.”

a. Hercules

b. Mezentius

c. Jupiter

d. Virgil
13:  Who said the following: “You’ll report the news / To Pelidës, my father; don’t forget / My sad behavior, the degeneracy / Of Neoptolemus. Now die.”

a. Pyrrhus

b. Priam

c. Sinon

d. Aeneas



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