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WorksheetsAeneid Book 6
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
What prophecy does the Sibyl of Cumae give Aeneas?
Rome will be a great imperial city
Aeneas will win glory beyond his wildest dreams
The people of Italy will welcome Aeneas as their liberator
New wars, and a new Achilles, await Aeneas in Italy
The Sibyl tells Aeneas that in order to go to The Underworld he must...(select all that apply)
Pluck a golden bough
Bury his friend Misenus
Build a temple to Apollo
Sacrifice black animals
Aeneas meets Palinurus who cannot enter Hades because...
His corpse has not been buried
He competed with the gods who won't forgive him
He neglected his duty
He was cursed by the Sibyl
In the Fields of Mourning, Aeneas meets Dido and attempts to justify leaving her. Dido responds by...
Bitterly cursing Aeneas and all his descendants
Weeping and falling into Aeneas' arms
Fleeing from Aeneas, without a word, to rejoin her husband Sychaeus
Praying to Juno to punish Aeneas for leaving her
In Virgil's Underworld, those who were wicked in life
Share the same fate as those who have been good
Are never allowed to enter the underworld
Are imprisoned in Tartarus and severely punished
Are kept in limbo for three years and then allowed to mingle with the other souls
In the Blessed Groves Aeneas meets his father Anchises. Anchises tells Aeneas that the souls of the dead
Are rewarded or punished for all eternity
Have new powers which they can exercise on earth to haunt people
Are incapable of real thought or emotion because their sinews have been destroyed in death
Are reborn after a thousand years have passed
Anchises shows Aeneas
The tablets on which the Roman code of laws are written
A great temple in which all the great exploits of Romans are portrayed in sculpture
The souls of famous Roman leaders yet to be born
His household deities
A 'shade' is
A god of the underworld
The spirit of a dead person in the underworld
The name of an area in the underworld
A prophet like the Sibyl
The souls of only the most exceptional mortals resided in which part of the underworld?
Tartarus
The Asphodel Meadows
The Elysian Fields
The Fields of Mourning
Which river in the underworld is forgetfulness, preparing souls for reincarnation?
Styx
Acheron
Cocytus
Lethe
Which of the following figures does Aeneas NOT see in the 'parade' of heroes?
Camillus
Marcellus
Albinus
Scipio Africanus
Which gate does Aeneas leave the Underworld by?
The gate of Horn
The gate of Ivory
Who is Aeneas' guide through his journey in the Underworld?
Creusa
the Sibyl
Dante Aligheri
Anchises
Who is the poor old Trojan hero who has a horribly mutilated face and wants to have a chat with Aeneas?
Palinurus
Archesilaos
Hector
Deiphobos
