Higher Latin: Virgil Extract 6

Who enjoy a love affair all through the winter?

• Mercury and Aeneas

• Iarbas and Dido

• Dido and Aeneas

• Dido and Jupiter

Who prays to Jupiter to get rid of Aeneas?

• Mercury

• Aeneas

• Dido

• Iarbas

Which god is sent by Jupiter to remind Aeneas of his duty?

• Mercury

• Neptune

• Mars

• Venus

What is Aeneas reminded to do by Mercury?

• Build a city

• Go to Italy

• Marry Dido

• Fight Iarbas

What does Mercury accuse Aeneas of forgetting?

• His friendship with Iarbas

• His home in Troy

• His responsibilities

• His love for Dido

Who is the King of the Gods according to Mercury?

• Saturn

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Pluto

What is Aeneas supposed to think of, according to Mercury, if not for his own honour?

• The city of Carthage

• The wrath of Jupiter

• The love of Dido

• His young son Ascanius

What happens to Mercury after delivering the message?

• He returns to Olympus

• He fights with Iarbas

• He goes to speak with Dido

• He vanishes from mortal vision