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WorksheetsAP Latin - Vergil Background
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
When was Vergil born?
a)
70 BCE
b)
50 BCE
c)
30 CE
d)
44 BCE
2.
Where was Vergil born?
a)
Mantua
b)
Sulmo
c)
Verona
d)
Roma
3.
In what meter were all three of Vergil's poems composed?
a)
alcaic strophe
b)
Sapphic strophe
c)
hendecasyllabic
d)
dactylic hexameter
4.
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'?
a)
Aeneid
b)
Eclogues
c)
Georgics
d)
Appendix Vergiliana
5.
Which work is described by Boyd as 'a versified handbook of agricultural lore and advice'?
a)
Georgics
b)
Eclogues
c)
Aeneid
d)
Appendix Vergiliana
6.
What word, derived from Greek, is used to describe writing, like Vergil's in the Georgics, whose purpose is to teach the reader?
a)
dogmatic
b)
didactic
c)
dactylic
d)
despotic
7.
To what creatures does Vergil devote an entire book of the Georgics?
a)
bees
b)
birds
c)
cats
d)
fish
8.
In what year did Vergil begin writing the Aeneid?
a)
43 BCE
b)
31 BCE
c)
29 BCE
d)
79 CE
9.
How many books are in the Aeneid?
a)
24
b)
6
c)
12
d)
36
10.
Which early Roman author, considered the grandfather of Latin literature, is thought to have influenced Vergil with his Annales?
a)
Ennius
b)
Plautus
c)
Tacitus
d)
Catullus
11.
Which Roman poet, author of an epyllion (mini-epic) on the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, was surely an influence on Vergil?
a)
Catullus
b)
Ovid
c)
Horace
d)
Propertius
12.
Who was Aeneas's father?
a)
Anchises
b)
Jupiter
c)
Priam
d)
Mars
13.
Who was Aeneas's son?
a)
Iulus
b)
Ascanius
c)
Romulus
d)
Augustus
14.
Which Roman emperor considered Vergil's Eclogue 4 to be a prediction of the birth of Christ?
a)
Nero
b)
Marcus Aurelius
c)
Constantine
d)
Romulus Augustulus
15.
Which work does Boyd describe as 'richly Vergilian in its intertextuality even as it equates the empire-building burden of epic with the aspirations of Satan'?
a)
Dante's Divine Comedy
b)
Milton's Paradise Lost
c)
The New Testament
d)
Augustine's Confessions
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