Deck 19: Virgils Roman Epic: The Aeneid

Question 1

Dido was Aeneas's second wife.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Aeneas seems to represent Octavian or Augustus in this epic, which is embedded in history. Only Dido was a completely fictional character, without historical associations for the audience.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

When Turnus dies, he releases Aeneas from the pressure of destiny and allows him to return to private life.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

One of the pro-Roman female characters of the Aeneid is Venus.

Question 5

Dido is angry because she discovers that she was not Aeneas's first love.

Question 6

In the end, Aeneas is rewarded by being taken to Rome by his mother, Venus.

Question 7

The shade of Creusa instructs Aeneas to marry again and to found Rome.

Question 8

As befits a patriarchal epic, Aeneas's only guide to the Underworld is his father Anchises.

Question 9

Aeneas leaves Juno, the woman he loves, to marry Creusa, because he is ordered to do so by Mercury.

Question 10

In the course of the epic, Aeneas learns that the hero must not give vent to his anger.

Question 11

In the Underworld, Aeneas learns the meaning of his suffering from the shade of his father, Anchises.

Question 12

When Aeneas leaves Rome, he carries his son on his back and leads his father by the hand.

Question 13

The climax of the Aeneid, the combat between Turnus and Aeneas, parallels the combat between Hector and Achilles.

Question 14

While Achilles and Odysseus had a choice of fates, Aeneas must do as the gods have predetermined.

Question 15

Differences between the Iliad and the Aeneid include the characters of Patroclus and Pallas; Patroclus was an inexperienced youth in his first battle, whereas Pallas was an experienced fighter.

Question 16

The first six books of the Aeneid are modeled on the Odyssey; the rest is modeled on the Iliad.

Question 17

Aeneas displays righteous indignation when Turnus, after having killed Aeneas's young friend in battle, boasts of the kill by wearing the young man's belt.

Question 18

Virgil ordered his manuscript to be destroyed upon his death, but the Emperor Augustus saved it from destruction.

Question 19

The narration of the Aeneid includes the founding of Rome by Aeneas.

Question 20

Like all other Roman literature at the time, the Aeneid was written in Greek.

Question 21

The three groups of people who are allowed into Elysium are proper people, pious poets, and pure priests.

Question 22

Some scholars claim that Virgil's representation of "Rome triumphant" is actually ironic.

Question 23

Romans who read Virgil's story about Aeneas and Dido would have been very surprised that Aeneas did not remain with the woman he loved, whatever the political costs.

Question 24

The Romans of Virgil's time would have

A) approved of Dido's suicide because she was unhappy.
B) disapproved of Dido's suicide because suicide was illegal.
C) disapproved of Dido's suicide because she was neglecting her responsibilities as queen of Carthage.
D) approved of Dido's suicide as a fit punishment for her delaying Aeneas on his quest for Rome.

Question 25

The Cumaean Sibyl was a priestess of Apollo who

A) assisted Aeneas on his trip to the Underworld.
B) took vengeance on Aeneas for the death of Dido.
C) warned Aeneas that the Greeks would always be his enemies.
D) lived in the top of a tree.

Question 26

Part of Virgil's description of the Underworld is borrowed from a dialogue by Plato.

Question 27

Juno wants Troy, not Rome, to be the Eternal City.

Question 28

Under what conditions did Turnus kill Pallas?

A) in a fit of jealousy
B) in battle
C) by accident, during a fist fight
D) by mistaking him for Aeneas

Question 29

What reward did Aeneas receive during his lifetime for furthering the gods' plans for Rome?

A) Nothing.
B) He was shown a vision of Rome of the future.
C) He was taken to Rome by his mother, Venus.
D) He was reunited with Dido.

Question 30

Who is the real hero of the Aeneid?

A) Turnus
B) Troy
C) Aeneas
D) Rome

Question 31

The story of Dido and Aeneas recalled to a Roman audience

A) what they had heard about Cleopatra.
B) what they knew about the political basis of many Roman marriages.
C) what they knew about the Romans' long and difficult fight against Hannibal and his Carthaginians.
D) all of the above.

Question 32

What did Aeneas carry on his back when leaving Troy?

A) his wife
B) his father
C) his son
D) a monkey

Question 33

Among the examples of the Aeneid's linking myth and history, which of the following does not belong?

A) Jupiter predicts the reign of Augustus.
B) Anchises predicts that Rome will not be the capital city for 300 years.
C) Dido calls for a general, who will be Julius Caesar, to attack Rome during the Punic Wars.
D) Jupiter predicts the expansion of Rome, including its conquest of Greece.

Question 34

Who becomes Aeneas's moral guide in the Underworld?

A) his friend, Hector
B) his mother, Creusa
C) his father, Anchises
D) his friend, Pallas

Question 35

The text mentions four aspects of the governing role of the city. Which is not one of those four aspects?

A) to create good conditions for civilized life
B) to establish good government
C) to erect buildings and monuments
D) to raise taxes to pay for itself

Question 36

Who was Aeneas's second wife?

A) Dido
B) Creusa
C) Dodo
D) Lavinia