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Aeneid Trivia 2 Trivia Quiz

Part 2 of the Quizzes that test your knowledge of the great Roman epic, the Aeneid. This quiz is much more challenging than my previous one, and I highly recommend reading (in English or Latin) the actual text.

A multiple-choice quiz by BenjiSim. Estimated time: 7 mins.

Author
BenjiSim

Time
7 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
79,494

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
488

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Question 1 of 10

1. When Aeneas's ship gets caught in storm and death seems imminent, he cries out, 'Bravest Danaan, -blank-, why could I not go down when you had wounded me, and lose my life on Ilium's battlefield?' Which Greek hero is Aeneas addressing? Hint

Achilles

Odysseus

Ajax

Diomedes

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Question 2 of 10

2. What Trojan actually managed to escape the Greeks and reach the Italian mainland before Aeneas?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 3 of 10

3. What is the name of Dido's evil brother? Hint

Pygmalion

Achates

Sychaeus

Cloanthus

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Question 4 of 10

4. What is the name of the Greek soldier who was chosen to lie to the Trojans about the wooden horse?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which one of the following places does Aeneas NOT go to? Hint

Ithaca

Actium

Strophades

Buthratum

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which African king does Dido reject for a husband?

Answer: (One {word;} he is a son of Jupiter Hammon)

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Question 7 of 10

7. In the Underworld, Aeneas sees the ghost of one of the three men in Roman history to win the 'spolia opima'. Can you name him or one of the two other men?

Answer: (Any one word (any part of their names-surnames or first names, or the full name))

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which banished god rules over a golden age in Italy before the coming of Aeneas?

Answer: (One Word (He is banished when his son takes over as king of the gods))

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Question 9 of 10

9. Pallas and his father, both Greeks, aid Aeneas in his fight against Turnus in Italy. Can you name Pallas's father? Hint

Hyrtacus

Euryalus

Evander

Nisus

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Question 10 of 10

10. What is the name of the warrior-queen ruler of the Volscians who allies with Turnus against Aeneas?

Answer: (One word (it starts with 'C'))

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Diomedes

Diomedes is the hero Aeneas battled with. Interestingly enough, he reappears near the end of the epic expressing his best wishes for Aeneas's success.

2. What Trojan actually managed to escape the Greeks and reach the Italian mainland before Aeneas?

Answer: Antenor

Antenor sails up the Timavus river and settles in the city of Padua.

3. What is the name of Dido's evil brother?

Answer: Pygmalion

Pygmalion murders Dido's husband, Sychaeus, on a sacrificial altar. His ghost appears to Dido in a dream and tells her to flee.

4. What is the name of the Greek soldier who was chosen to lie to the Trojans about the wooden horse?

Answer: Sinon

Sinon plays his part admirably. Read the epic (its so much more powerful in Latin).

5. Which one of the following places does Aeneas NOT go to?

Answer: Ithaca

Aeneas encounters the harpies in Strophades. He visits Actium (foreshadowing the great battle to take place there centuries later). In Buthratum he meets Andromache, the wife of the dead Hector.

6. Which African king does Dido reject for a husband?

Answer: Iarbas

Iarbas curses Dido for rejecting him, choosing instead a 'decadent eastern prince' (Aeneas).

7. In the Underworld, Aeneas sees the ghost of one of the three men in Roman history to win the 'spolia opima'. Can you name him or one of the two other men?

Answer: Claudius

Of all spoils the most important were the Spolia Opima, a term applied to those only which the commander-in-chief of a Roman army stripped in a field of battle from the leader of the foe. The first were said to have been won by Romulus from Acro, king of the Caeninenses, the second by Aulus Cornelius Cossus from Lar Tolumnius king of the Veientes, the third by M. Claudius Marcellus from Viridomarus (or BritovmartoV as he is called by Plutarch), king of the Gaesatae.

8. Which banished god rules over a golden age in Italy before the coming of Aeneas?

Answer: Saturn

After being defeated by his son Jupiter, Saturn flees to Italy. He is represented as being castrated-a symbol of his loss of "power".

9. Pallas and his father, both Greeks, aid Aeneas in his fight against Turnus in Italy. Can you name Pallas's father?

Answer: Evander

Evander and his son Pallas offer Aeneas unexpected help. The help of this Greek king is crucial to Aeneas's victory.

10. What is the name of the warrior-queen ruler of the Volscians who allies with Turnus against Aeneas?

Answer: Camilla

Virgil greatly admires warrior-women in his epic, praising the courage of Penthesilea and Camilla.

Source: Author BenjiSim

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