The Aeneid Book II Test

Question 1

Who was the greatest warrior in the Greek army at Troy?

Answer 1

Achilles

Question 2

Who was Aeneas’s father?

Answer 2

Anchises

Question 3

___ was the son of Aeneas who was destined to inherit the Italian realm and also went by Iulius.

Answer 3

Ascanius

Question 4

___ was a Greek priest and seer who was with the army at Troy.

Answer 4

Calchas

Question 5

___ was the Trojan princess with the gift of prophecy but the curse that her prophecy would never be believed by anyone. She was the daughter of Priam and Hecuba.

Answer 5

Cassandra

Question 6

___ was an ally of Troy who loves Cassandra and fight alongside Aeneas in the last battle of Troy.

Answer 6

Coroebus

Question 7

Who were the Danaans?

Answer 7

Greeks

Question 8

Who were the Dardanians?

Answer 8

Trojans

Question 9

___ is the son of Tydeus and one of the most important Greek chieftains at Troy. He also captured the swift horses of Aeneas, preventing fulfillment of the oracle that if these horses were to feed and drink at Troy, the city could never be taken.

Answer 9

Diomedes

Question 10

Who is Priam’s queen?

Answer 10

Hecuba

Question 11

Who is the Trojan priest of Neptune?

Answer 11

Laocoon

Question 12

___ is the goddess of wisdom who allegedly sent serpents to attack Laocoon after he disgraced the wooden horse presented by the Greeks.

Answer 12

Minerva

Question 13

A(n) ___ is a Greek soldier who was led by Achilles.

Answer 13

Myrmidon

Question 14

___ is the god of the sea who built the walls of Troy but then became an enemy of Troy when Laomedon refused to pay him his reward. He nevertheless befriended Aeneas.

Answer 14

Neptune

Question 15

___ was an image of Minerva upon which the safety of Troy depended. It was stolen from the temple of Pallas by Ulysses and Diomedes.

Answer 15

Palladium

Question 16

Who was the Trojan priest of Apollo?

Answer 16

Panthus

Question 17

What were the household gods called?

Answer 17

Penates

Question 18

What was the name given by Aeneas to his city in Crete?

Answer 18

Pergamum

Question 19

___ was a Greek word meaning bright or radiant. This title was given to Apollo.

Answer 19

Phoebus

Question 20

___ was the son of Priam who was slain by Pyrrhus.

Answer 20

Polites

Question 21

Who is the son of Laomedon and king of Troy?

Answer 21

Priam

Question 22

___ was the son of Achilles who killed Polites and Priam on the last night of Troy.

Answer 22

Pyrrhus

Question 23

___ was the Greek who infiltrated Troy by telling a story of how he fled. He later released the Greeks from the wooden horse.

Answer 23

Sinon

Question 24

___ is a small island in the Aegean Sea near Troy.

Answer 24

Tenedos

Question 25

___ was an epithet of Minerva?

Answer 25

Tritonian

Question 26

___ is one of the greatest of the Greek chieftains besieging Troy who was renowned for his sagacity.

Answer 26

Ulysses