Aeneid Comprehension Questions for Book 2

Aeneid Comprehension Questions for Book 2 The Sack of Troy

P. 51 1) What does Aeneas tell the assembled group, was the result of the war for Troy? 2) What was supposed to be the reason that the Greeks built the wooden horse? 3) What id the Greeks secretly do with the horse? p.52 4) How did the Trojans now feel? 5) What did Thymoetes now suggest? 7) What did Capys think? 8) What did Laocoon say? 9) What did Laocoon do? p.53 10) What is the name of the Greek prisoner? p.54 11) What does Virgil explain was the ‘prisoners’ function? 12) According to Sinon, why was he so hated by the other Greeks? 13) According to Sinon, why did the Greeks have to have a human sacrifice? p.55 14) How did Sinon avoid being the human sacrifice? 15) How did the Trojans now treat Sinon? p.56 16) What, according to Sinon, was the point of the wooden horse? p.57 17) What, according to Sinon, is the reason why the Greeks wouldn’t want a wooden horse to get into Troy? 18) How did the Trojans react to Sinon’s story? 19) What suddenly now happened to poor Laocoon? p. 58 20) What happened to the two serpents after? 21) How does Aeneas feel about the way the Trojan people received the wooden horse? 22) Who was Cassandra? p.59 23) How did the Greeks enter Troy? 24) Describe Aeneas’ dream (some detail) p.60 25)What was Aeneas’ state of mind as he rushed to fight the Greeks? 26) What is meant by the ‘Dardan land’? p. 61 27) What other words are used for Troy and the Trojans? 28) According to Panthus, whose fault was the war? 29) What feeling do Panthus’ words stir in Aeneas? 30) What does Aeneas say to the men who gather around him? p.62 31) What does Coroebus suggest they do? p.63 32) How is the battle going at this stage for the Trojans? p.64 33) Where does the battle now move to? p.65 34) How is Pyrrhus described as he attacks Priam’s palace? p.66 35) What comparison is used to describe the Greeks rushing in and overpowering the palace? p.67 36) Describe Priam’s horrible death 37) What sort of person was Priam? 38) What does Aeneas now realise? p. 68 39) What does Aeneas plan when he sees Helen? p.69 40) What does Venus say to Aeneas when she appears before him? 41) How does Aeneas describe the collapse of Troy? p.70 42) How does Anchises react to Aeneas plans for them all to leave? p.71 43) What does Aeneas now decide to do? 44) What 2 types of signs now come from the gods to change Anchises’ mind? p.72 45) Draw (stick figures) a picture of the leaving procession 46) Why wouldn’t Aeneas touch the household gods? 47) What new feeling does Aeneas experience? p.73 48) How do they end up losing Creusa? 49) How does Aeneas feel about this? 50) How does Aeneas find his home when he looks there for Creusa? p.74 51) What has happened to Creusa? 52) What does she tell Aeneas? 53) What does Aeneas find when he returns to his father? 54) How does Aeneas now feel? End 