1. Virgil’s Aeneid Quiz
Books 1-8

2. Characters (1) 1 marks per image

3. Characters (2) 1 mark per image

4. Characters (3) 1 mark per image

5. Characters (4) 1 mark per image

6. Characters (5) 1 mark per image

7. Guess the event (1+2) 1 mark per image

8. Guess the event (3+4) 1 mark per image

9. Guess the event (5+6) 1 mark per image

10. Guess the event (7+8) 1 mark per image

11. Books 1-3 Book 1 Who does Juno ask to create the storm?
What happens to Ascanius at the end of the book?
Book 2
3) Coroebus dies when trying to save who?
4) Which family member did Aeneas lose when escaping from the city of Troy?
Book 3
5) Who died at Drepanum during Aeneas’ travels from Troy to Carthage?

12. Books 4-6
Book 4
Who does Juno persuade to allow Aeneas and Dido to ‘marry’?
Who is Barce?
Book 5
3) Name one event in the funeral games.
Book 6
4) What token must Aeneas carry to be admitted alive into the underworld?
5) Where does Aeneas find Anchises?

13. Books 7-8
Book 7
How do the Trojans know they have reached their final destination?
Who does Juno send to change the opinion of Turnus and Amata?
Book 8
3) Which hero are the Arcadians hosting a feast for when Aeneas arrives in Pallentium?
4) What object is described at the end of the book?

14. Which book/Which person?
‘He had scarcely finished speaking when the cloud that was all about them suddenly parted and dissolved into the clear sky. ****** stood there resplendent in the bright light of day with the head and shoulders of a god.’

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17. This image is an excerpt from the Vergilius Vaticanus, which is an illuminated manuscript containing fragments of Vergil's Aeneid. It was made in Rome at approximately 400 AD, and is one of the oldest sources of the text of the Aeneid. It is now located in the Biblioteca Apostolica in the Vatican.