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WorksheetsThe Aeneid and Hades: Lord of the Dead Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 19mins
What is the effect of the imagery in this excerpt?
Grim Charon is the squalid ferryman,
the guardian of these streams, these rivers; his
white hairs lie thick, disheveled on his chin;
his eyes are fires that stare, a filthy mantle
hangs down his shoulder by a knot. . . .
It illustrates the speaker's fears about the boats.
It describes the boatman's fears about his duties.
It shows that the boatman is fearsome and determined.
It illuminates that the speaker is uncertain and troubled.
What is the meaning of the phrase old age in a god is tough and green in line 12 of The Aeneid?
When gods get old, they stop taking care of themselves.
Old gods may seem powerful, but they are helpless.
When gods get old, they create terror for everyone.
Old gods may look weak, but they stay powerful.
What is the effect of the imagery in lines 13-27 of The Aeneid?
It gives modern readers a deeper understanding of the speaker.
It forces readers to consider what their five senses tell them.
It uses old scare tactics to thrill modern readers.
It creates a sense of horrific yearning in readers.
What is the meaning of the phrase to swear falsely in line 37 of The Aeneid?
To cry
To lie
To curse
To scream
What is the effect of the narrator's use of the word you throughout the excerpt from Hades: Lord of the Dead?
It makes the reader feel like part of the story.
It demonstrates how the reader knows the characters.
It gives the reader insight into the narrator’s frame of mind.
It shows what the narrator is thinking as he talks to the reader.
How is Cerberus characterized by both words and illustrations in Hades: Lord of the Dead?
As loyal and territorial
As welcoming but fierce
As frightening and ferocious
As worrisome but trustworthy
According to the description of the crowded shores of Erebus in Hades: Lord of the Dead, how do the anonymous dead view the living?
As nothing at all
As sad memories
As water creatures
As irresistible objects
What is the author's most likely purpose in telling the story of Hades: Lord of the Dead as a graphic novel?
To engage a new generation of readers in an ancient story
To use the story to demonstrate the power of images over words
To allow readers to play the role of the hero in a mythological story
To present the story so that it can be more easily adapted into a film
The excerpt from the graphic novel Hades: Lord of the Dead draws on an archetype by -
centering the story on a quest undertaken by a hero in search of a valuable item
setting the story in a fiery underworld like those described in religious texts
depicting Hades as a shadowy villain figure who is an embodiment of evil
portraying Charon as a wise mentor figure who gives advice to the dead
Identify is this event happens in The Aeneid or Hades: Lord of the Dead, or if it happens in both:
Ferryman Charon’s job is described.
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Identify is this event happens in The Aeneid or Hades: Lord of the Dead, or if it happens in both:
The Danaides work to fill a bathtub.
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Identify is this event happens in The Aeneid or Hades: Lord of the Dead, or if it happens in both:
Ixion’s flaming wheel provides light.
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Identify is this event happens in The Aeneid or Hades: Lord of the Dead, or if it happens in both:
Teeming hordes of people wait on the shores
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Identify is this event happens in The Aeneid or Hades: Lord of the Dead, or if it happens in both:
The priestess explains who is carried across the River Styx.
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Identify is this event happens in The Aeneid or Hades: Lord of the Dead, or if it happens in both:
The story is told from a young gods perspective.
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What is the tone of the excerpt from The Aeneid of Virgil?
Grim and wretched
Concerned and calming
Fearless and questioning
Ghoulish and emotionless
Which two quotes from The Aeneid best support the answer to Part A?
A whirlpool thick / with sludge, its giant eddy seething, vomits / all of its swirling sand into Cocytus. (lines 2–4)
Alone / he poles the boat and tends the sails . . . (lines 9–10)
And here a multitude was rushing, swarming / shoreward, with men and mothers, bodies
of / high-hearted heroes stripped of life . . . (lines 13–15)
thick as the leaves that with the early frost / of autumn drop and fall within the forest, / or as the birds that flock along the beaches . . . (lines 18–20)
But Charon, sullen boatman, / now takes these souls, now those . . . (lines 25–26)
Charon’s role in the underworld is to —
welcome people to their lives after death
take souls across the river Styx in his boat
prevent people from drowning in the rivers
pass judgment on human souls
Which two things does the poet compare to the crowd of souls on the beach?
leaves falling from trees in autumn
water swirling wildly in a river
hairs growing in a thick beard
birds migrating to warmer climates
bones piling up in a graveyard
Charon refuses to help the souls of people who —
died while their parents were still alive
did not receive a proper burial
approach him on the shore of the river
are not descended from gods
