Episode 57 Quiz
Welcome to the quiz for Episode 57: The World Grows Dim and Black. See what you remember about the Aeneid‘s explosive ending, and scholarly reactions to it, by clicking “START” below!
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To a large extent, Books 10-12 of the Aeneid show the main character becoming:
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This author completed a thirteenth additional book for the Aeneid in about 1428, which subsequently became very popular.
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This character says, “You’ve won; the [Italians] have witnessed the vanquished / Reaching his hands out to make his appeal. . .Don’t press your hate any further.”
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What is Turnus’ sister’s name?
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In the mid-1960s, the Harvard School of interpretation began to argue that the Aeneid communicates what kind of message?
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Virgil writes near the close of Book 10 that “For Turnus there will come a time / When he would give the world to see again / An [unplundered] Pallas.” What is the plunder being alluded to here?
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The first trial by single combat between Aeneas and Turnus erupts into general violence due to the intervention of:
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The Etruscans enlist on the Trojan side because:
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Queen of the Volscians and the virgin devotee of Diana, this character is killed at the climax of Book 11 of the Aeneid.
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What is Mezentius’ son’s name?
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Latinus’ wife:
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What is Pallas’ dad’s name?
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At the climax of Book 10, this character fights Aeneas while riding a horse, since he’s been wounded.
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In Book 10, Juno protects Turnus by:
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Just prior to the Aeneid‘s end, this character says, “I yield, am won over Willingly. [Italian] folk will keep / Their fathers’ language and their way of life, / And, that being so, their name. The [Trojans] / Will mingle and be submerged, incorporated.”
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