Book 6: The Underworld

1. Whose death is Aeneas mourning at the beginning of Book 6?

• Anchises
• Palinurus
• Dido
• Misenus

2. What is 'the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device'?

• Katabasis
• Simile
• Auctoritas
• Ekphrasis

3. Which story is shown on the doors to Apollo's golden shrine?

• The Minotaur
• Hercules
• The Odyssey
• The Trojan War

4. What imagery is used to represent the way the Sibyl communes with Apollo?

• A Bacchant
• A wolf hunting for her young
• A wild horse being ridden
• A maiden lost in a dream

5. The Sibyl sees...

• A second Achilles in Latium
• A second Odysseus in front of her
• A welcome for the Trojans in Latium
• Great winds blowing the Trojans home

6. According to the Sibyl, what is the greatest difficulty with going to the underworld?

• Finding it
• Getting past Cerberus
• Getting out again
• Speaking with Chiron

7. What does Aeneas need to collect to get into the Underworld?

• A golden apple
• A golden bough
• A golden leaf
• A golden acorn

8. What is polluting the crew, preventing Aeneas from entering the Underworld?

• The unburied corpse of Palinurus, the helmsman who was taken by the gods to ensure the Trojans safe passage
• The unhappy spirit of Dido, who has not forgiven Aeneas for leaving her
• The blood of the wars which must be washed away
• The unburied corpse of Misenus who was killed after boastfully playing music in competition with Triton

9. What were, "as many as are the leaves that fall in the forest at the first chill of autumn, as many as the birds that flock to land from deep ocean when the cold season of the year drives them over the sea to lands bathed in sun"?

• Aeneas' hopes and fears
• The throng of the dead begging to cross the river Styx
• The dead from the Trojan War waiting to greet Aeneas

11. What happened to Deiphobus?

• Helen hid his sword and armour and he was brutally killed
• He was lost at sea
• The Greeks overran his palace while he slept
• He was killed at the altar in Priam's palace