Poetic roots

Which Greek king was Helen’s husband?

• Menelaus

• Agamemnon

• Odysseus

• Achilles

Who was the greatest warrior of the Greeks?

• Odysseus

• Ajax

• Achilles

• Agamemnon

Who killed Achilles by shooting an arrow in his heel?

• Hector

• Paris

• Priam

• Aeneas

What did Paris choose when asked to judge the most beautiful goddess?

• Athena

• Hera

• Aphrodite

• Artemis

Which goddess is hostile to Aeneas and causes a storm against him in the book 1?

• Venus

• Minerva

• Diana

• Hera (Juno)

Where does Aeneas land after the storm in the Book 1?

• Carthage

• Troy

• Sicily

• Rome

Who appears to Aeneas in a dream to warn him to escape Troy in Book 2?

• Venus

• Priam

• Hector

• Jupiter

What is the main focus of Book 3 of The Aeneid?

• The prophecy of Rome

• The fall of Troy

• Aeneas’s travels after leaving Troy

• Dido’s love for Aeneas

Why Aeneas had to abandon

Carthage in book 4?

• 1. Because the gods told him to escape from Elissa

• Because the gods told him to continue his journey

• 1. Because the gods told him to have another family

• Because he fell in love

How does Dido die?

• She is struck by lightning

• She drinks poison

• She throws herself into the sea

• She stabs herself with Aeneas’s sword