The Aeneid Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 165 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Aeneid Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Danaans get inside the walls of Troy?
(a) The Trojans carry the horse inside and Sinon lets the soldiers inside it out.
(b) The Danaans are still unable to breach the walls of Troy.
(c) The Trojans move the horse next to their walls and the soldiers use it as a ladder.
(d) While the Trojans are busy looking at the horse, the Danaans storm the front gates of Troy.

2. Why is Aeneas' appearance a surprise to Dido and the crowd?
(a) He appears swearing vengeance on them all.
(b) He appears wearing women's garb as a disguise.
(c) He appears out of a thinning cloud as if from thin air.
(d) He appears accompanied by the goddess Venus.

3. Who will not be a descendant of Aeneas' line?
(a) Ilia.
(b) Romulus.
(c) Mars.
(d) Remus.

4. Why are Aeneas and his people supposed to settle in Hesperia?
(a) It is Venus' land and she promises it to them.
(b) The Greeks will never be able to find and attack them there.
(c) They only have enough food to make it that far.
(d) It is their true home, the land from which the forefathers of their people came.

5. Why did the Trojans think the Danaans had left?
(a) The Danaans set fire to their campsite and let it burn to the ground.
(b) The Danaans sent a letter announcing that they were leaving.
(c) The Danaans hid their ships behind a nearby island.
(d) The Danaans surrendered and promised to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dido kill herself?

2. Where do Dido and Aeneas become "married"?

3. For whom does Aeneas return to Troy to search?

4. Which of the following is NOT an effect of Dido's love for Aeneas?

5. What does Ilioneus ask of Dido?

(see the answer key)

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