Response to the following multiple choice questions:
1. Which of these episodes from the Odyssey is not recreated in the Aeneid?
the land of the Phaecians
The Underworld
The death of a crew member
the divine armor
2. Which goddess is sent to liberate Dido of her final suffering?
Venus
Minerva
Iris
Diana
3. Which of these is not a wife or lover of Aeneas?
Dido
Amata
Creusa
Lavinia
4. Which of these is not a portent in the Aeneid?
the sow and the piglets
the golden bough of Proserpina
the eating of the tables
Ascanius' hair on fire
5. Which of these is the future site of Rome?
the city of Evander
Lavinium
The city of King Latinus
Carthage
6. Who killed Cacus?
Evander
Orestes
Hercules
Aeneas
7. What does the Latin phase "arma virumque cano" mean?
I sing of the story of Aeneas.
I praise our emperor.
I will tell a story of war.
I sing about arms and the man.
8. What does the word "pietas" mean?
devotion to our wives.
obedience to gods, state and family.
having been driven mad.
excesive pride.
9. What does the word "fatum" mean?
the underworld
too much pride
fate
happiness
10. What does the word "furor" mean?
true devotion to the gods.
the beginning of an epic poem.
the state of being out of one's mind.
rage in battle.
11. Who does Aeneas talk to in the Underworld, who tells him of his importance for the Trojan people's future?
Anchises
Hades
Tiresias
Tantalus
12. Who was queen Dido'd murdered husband?
Anchises
Ascanius
Pygmalion
Sychaeus
13. How did queen Dido'd soul react at seeing Aeneas in the Underworld?
she embraced Aeneas.
She turned away to go to her husband
began to yell at Aeneas.
talked to Aeneas for a long time.
14. Who were the founders of the city of Rome?
Ascanius and Latinus.
Aeneas and Anchises.
Julus and Aeneas
Romulus and Remus
15. Who made Aeneas' shield?
Vulcan
Neptune
Juno
Augustus
16. What was the name of Evander's son?
Aeneas
Turnus
Pallas
Latinus
17. Dido is queen of what city?
Rome
Carthage
Alba Longa
Laurentum
18. What is the name of the fury that Juno unleashed in the Aeneid?
Allecto
Furio
Amata
Lavinia
19. Who guides Aeneas to the Underworld?
Dido
The Sybil
Venus
Anchises
20. Who is Lavinia's suitor?
Pallas
Eurylochus
Turnus
Evander
21. At the end of the Aeneid, Aeneas ..............
kills Dido
founds Rome
founds Alba Longa
kills Turnus
22. What books of the Aeneid resemble Homer's Odyssey?
1-2
7-12
1-6
6-9
23. Which of this figures does not belong to the Underworld in the Aeneid?
Lavinia
Dido
Tantalus
Cerberus
24. The Aeneid is a foundational story that shows .................
the birth of an ethnically homogenious people.
a nation that combines various ethnic groups.
an foundational story based on the destruction of one people by another.
a negative view of Rome.
25. Anchises tells Aeneas about .............. in the Underworld.
Trojan past.
the future of Rome.
the future of Greece.
his family's past.