The Aeneid

What is the meaning of the phrase "old age in a god is tough and green" in line 12 of The Aeneid?

• Old gods may look weak, but they stay powerful.

• When gods get old, they stop taking care of themselves.

• Old gods may seem powerful, but they are helpless.

• When gods get old, they create terror for everyone.

The priestess explains who is carried across the River Styx in . . .

• The epic poem The Aeneid

• The graphic novel Hades: Lord of the Dead

• Both of them

Teeming hordes of the dead wait on the shores in . . .

• The epic poem The Aeneid

• The graphic novel Hades: Lord of the Dead

• Both of them

What epic poem describes the hero's journey from Troy to Italy?

• The Iliad

• The Odyssey

• The Aeneid

• The Metamorphoses

Who wrote The Aeneid?

• Homer

• Vergil

• Ovid

• Juvenal

Who was the father of Aeneas?

• Anchises

• Achates

• Ascanius

• Acestes

Who was the son of Aeneas?

• Ascanius

• Anchises

• Acestes

• Achates

Who does Aeneas carry out of Troy?

• Anchises

• Ascanius

• Creusa

• Achates

Which family member of Aeneas follows behind him at a distance as they are escaping Troy?

• his wife

• his son

• his father

• his cousin

What ghost appears to Aeneas to tell him he will make it to Hesperia and will indeed marry a foreign bride?

• Creusa

• Helen

• Hector

• Anchises