The Aeneid Study Guide

1. Why is Juno angry at the Trojans?

• Because she's evil
• Because she's a patron of Aeneas's enemy
• Because Anchises wronged her
• Because Paris didn't pronounce her the "fairest"

2. How is Anchises finally convinced to flee Troy?

• The troops threaten Aeneas's wife, Creusa
• Aeneas is struck with an arrow
• He sees omens that indicate that he should leave
• He is wounded and needs treatment

3. In Book I, why does Neptune become angry at Aeolus?

• Because Aeolus woos Neptune's wife, Venus
• Because Aeolus stirs up the waves, which are Neptune's territory
• Because he's in a bad temper over a fight with Jupiter
• Because Aeolus sends two nymphs to taunt Neptune

4. What are the names of the twin brothers, suckled at the breast of a wolf, who become the founders of Rome?

• Hercules and Evander
• Romulus and Remus
• Nisus and Euryalus
• Ascanius and Pallas

5. How does Venus make Dido fall in love with Aeneas?

• She makes Aeneas unbearably handsome
• She appears to Dido in Aeneas's form and says he loves her
• She sends Cupid, in the guise of Ascanius
• She sends Anna with a love potion

6. Why does Juno want Dido and Aeneas to marry?

• Because then Aeneas's great city will be in Carthage
• To keep Dido away from Juno's husband, Jupiter
• Because it will anger Venus, Juno's enemy
• Because she thinks the wedding would be a great party

7. Why did Dido flee Phoenicia to found a new city, Carthage?

• Because Juno sent an omen telling her to do so
• Because her brother killed her husband, Sychaeus
• Because she no longer loved her husband, Sychaeus
• To escape Mezentius's oppressive rule

8. How does Aeneas resolve the footrace in Drepanum?

• He gives only Euryalus a prize
• He gives only Salius a prize
• He gives everyone prizes
• He gives only Nisus a prize

9. How does Creusa convince Aeneas to flee Troy?

• She tells him that he will be killed if he does not leave
• She tells him he must fulfill his destiny to found a city and take a royal bride
• She threatens him with violence
• She sends Hector to plead with him

10. How does the story that Aeneas tells Dido end?

• With Creusa's death
• With Palinurus's death
• With Anichses' death
• With Celeano's curse