Latin Semester Test 1


Section
Question | Answer |
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What is the first sentence of the aenead | Of war and a man I sing, who first from Troy's shores, an exile by the decree of fate, came to Italy and Laviniums shores |
what is the second sentence of the aenead | Much was he tossed on sea and land by the violence of the God's, because of cruel Juno's unforgetting anger |
what is the third sentence of the aenead | Much too, did he endure in war as he sought to bring his God's to Latium |
what is the last sentence of the aenead | From him are descended the Latin people, the elders of Alba, and the walls of Lofty Rome! |
Question | Answer |
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who wrote the aenead? | Virgil |
who asked him to write the aenead? | Emperor Augustus |
why did he asked him to write it? | he was trying to reform society. and the Roman's stopped with their responsibility |
what was the aenead supposed to remind/teach the romans | they were descended from the god's, they were destined to rule the world, they needed to be more responsible |
who was the main character of the aenead | Aeneas |
who was his father | Anchises |
who was his mother | Venus |
who was his first wife | Creusa |
who was his second wife | Lavinia |
who was his son | Asconius |
when was aeneas first named? | aeneas was not named until line 92 in the aenead so romans would keep their focus on the roman situation |
Question | Answer |
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-o | I |
-s | you |
-t | he/she/it |
-mus | we |
-tis | y'all |
-nt | they |
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