AP Latin - Vergil Background

When was Vergil born?

• 70 BCE
• 50 BCE
• 30 CE
• 44 BCE

Where was Vergil born?

• Mantua
• Sulmo
• Verona
• Roma

In what meter were all three of Vergil's poems composed?

• alcaic strophe
• Sapphic strophe
• hendecasyllabic
• dactylic hexameter

What work is described by Boyd as 'a desperate, even self-delusive, attempt to replace the harsh realities of the 30s BCE with a better, simpler, and more promising picture of Italy and its inhabitants'?

• Aeneid
• Eclogues
• Georgics
• Appendix Vergiliana

Which work is described by Boyd as 'a versified handbook of agricultural lore and advice'?

• Georgics
• Eclogues
• Aeneid
• Appendix Vergiliana

What word, derived from Greek, is used to describe writing, like Vergil's in the Georgics, whose purpose is to teach the reader?

• dogmatic
• didactic
• dactylic
• despotic

To what creatures does Vergil devote an entire book of the Georgics?

• bees
• birds
• cats
• fish

In what year did Vergil begin writing the Aeneid?

• 43 BCE
• 31 BCE
• 29 BCE
• 79 CE

How many books are in the Aeneid?

• 24
• 6
• 12
• 36

Which early Roman author, considered the grandfather of Latin literature, is thought to have influenced Vergil with his Annales?

• Ennius
• Plautus
• Tacitus
• Catullus