The Aeneid: Book 4

Question 1

The morning after hearing Aeneas’s story Dido confines in her sister _______.

Answer 1

Anna

Question 2

Dido had swore not to love anyone after her dead husband, ________.

Answer 2

Sychaeus

Question 3

Anna tells Dido that Carthage is surrounded by _______ and they could use a good _________. Let the Trojans stay for the _______.

Answer 3

enemies, alliance, winter

Question 4

The city’s (Carthage) building projects _____ with no one to oversee them.

Answer 4

stall

Question 5

The goddess _______ sees what’s going on and recognizes that ________ did it.

Answer 5

Juno, Venus

Question 6

Juno suggests that Dido and Aeneas get married. She tells Venus this and Venus says they should consult ________ first.

Answer 6

Jupiter

Question 7

Dido and Aeneas are going ________ so Juno makes it rain so that they will have to take shelter in a ________.

Answer 7

hunting, cave

Question 8

Word that Aeneas and Dido are “married” makes it to North African king ________. His father is ________. He was once rejected by ______.

Answer 8

Iarbas, Jupiter, Dido

Question 9

Jupiter looks at what is going on in Carthage. He sends _________ to tell Aeneas that he’s supposed to be finding a new city in Italy.

Answer 9

Mercury

Question 10

Mercury goes and finds _________ supervising the building of Carthage’s walls.

Answer 10

Aeneas

Question 11

Mercury tells Aeneas Jupiter’s message and tells Aeneas to think about _______ and the legacy he will be leaving him.

Answer 11

Ascanius

Question 12

Mercury leaves and Aeneas tells the other Trojans to get the ______ ready for departure.

Answer 12

fleet

Question 13

Aeneas tries to keep the preparations secret but _____ finds out and becomes angry.

Answer 13

Dido

Question 14

When Dido confronts him Aeneas tell her that his ______ is appearing to him in dreams and _______ told him to get a move on and he has to leave a legacy for ________.

Answer 14

father, Mercury, Ascanius

Question 15

Dido does not respond well and says she hopes his ________ sink.

Answer 15

ships

Question 16

Then Dido runs away and _______. Her _______ carry her back to her bedroom.

Answer 16

faints, maids

Question 17

Dido tells ______ to ask the Trojans to wait for better _____ before leaving.

Answer 17

Anna, winds

Question 18

Water blackens on Dido’s _______ and wine turns to ______. _____ seem to arise from the shrine of her dead husband.

Answer 18

altars, blood, voices

Question 19

Dido decides to commit _______.

Answer 19

suicide

Question 20

Dido tells ______ to prepare a pyre to burn the things Aeneas left.

Answer 20

Anna

Question 21

Dido considers following the _______. She decides against it and reaffirms to herself her intention to commit suicide. She is also motivated by ______ at having been unfaithful to the memory of _______.

Answer 21

Trojans, guilt, Sychaeus

Question 22

Aeneas is asleep on the _______ of his beached ship. _________ comes to him in a dream to tell him to leave for Italy.

Answer 22

stern, Mercury

Question 23

Dido prays that Aeneas’s mission will fail, and that his and her people will become ________.

Answer 23

enemies

Question 24

Dido sends her sister’s old _______ to tell Anna to get a pyre ready.

Answer 24

nurse

Question 25

After Anna builds the pyre Dido climbs on top of it and stabs herself with a ______ once given to her by _______.

Answer 25

sword, Aeneas

Question 26

_____ climbs onto the pyre to try to save ______ but it’s too late.

Answer 26

Anna, Dido

Question 27

Juno sends down _______, the messenger of the gods, to take a lock of Dido’s hair and prepare her for death. _____ does this and Dido dies.

Answer 27

Iris, Iris