Q 01/05

Which poem about farming did Virgil finish just before he began work on the Aeneid?

A) The Eclogues

B) The Georgics

C) Works and Days

D) The Metamorphoses

Answer · why

B) The Georgics

The Georgics: Virgil is said to have read it aloud to Augustus over four days, his patron Maecenas taking over whenever his voice gave out, and he the...

Q 02/05

Which river's god appears to Aeneas in a dream and calms his own current so the Trojan ships can row upstream?

A) The Po

B) The Arno

C) The Tiber

D) The Rubicon

Answer · why

C) The Tiber

The Tiber: old Tiberinus rises from the water to tell the sleeping Aeneas that he has reached his true home, then holds the river smooth as a pond all...

Q 03/05

Which poem was rearranged into twelve books like the Aeneid?

A) Beowulf

B) Christabel

C) Paradise Lost

D) Evangeline

Answer · why

C) Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost. For the second edition of 1674 Milton split two of his longest books in two, giving his Christian epic the same twelve-book shape as Vi...

Q 04/05

Which familiar saying does Turnus use to rally his men against the landing Trojans in Book 10 of the Aeneid?

A) The die has been cast

B) Love conquers all things

C) Seize the day

D) Fortune favours the bold

Answer · why

D) Fortune favours the bold

Fortune favours the bold. Turnus shouts it as he leads a charge on the Trojans while they are still stumbling ashore, though in the end fortune desert...

Q 05/05

In which meter is the Aeneid written?

A) Dactylic hexameter

B) Iambic pentameter

C) Elegiac couplets

D) Trochaic tetrameter

Answer · why

A) Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic hexameter. Early Roman epics used the native Saturnian verse until Ennius borrowed the six-beat line of Greek epic for his Annales, and his c...