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A total of 35 questions

1. In Roman history there are many heroes who gave their lives for their country.

A. virorum

B. viris

C. viros

D. viri

2. Jason had lost his sandal while crossing the river.

A. amisit

B. amittebat

C. amiserat

D. amittit

3. Mucius Sacevola Romam _____ desideravit.

A. servat

B. servabat

C. servare

D. servabit

4. Caesar liberatus est quod amici to the pirates multam pecuniam dederunt.

A. piratis

B. pirata

C. piratas

D. piratarum

5. Habitantne _____ in templis?

A. deis

B. deus

C. dei

D. deos

6. Cum elephantis et multis _____ Pyrrhus ad Italiam navigavit.

A. milites

B. militi

C. militibus

D. militum

7. Hercules had to bring back the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides.

A. in horto

B. per hortum

C. ad hortum

D. ex horto

8. We were being attacked constantly by Hannibal's troops.

A. oppugnati sumus

B. oppugnabimur

C. oppugnabamur

D. oppugnati eramus

9. Germani, _____ Romanorum, cum eis saepe bellum gerebant.

A. finitimum

B. finitimi

C. finitimos

D. finitimis

10. Hercules saw the three threatening heads of Cerberus in the shadows.

A. capitibus

B. capita

C. caput

D. capitum

11. Caesar defeated the Helvetians who had left their homes to search for a new homeland.

A. quos

B. qui

C. quibus

D. quorum

12. Think carefully, students, before you answer this controversial question.

A. Cogitatis

B. Cogita

C. Cogitate

D. Cogitabatis

13. Hercules fratri serpentes _____ demonstrat. (Hercules shows the dead serpents to his brother.)

A. mortuorum

B. mortuis

C. mortuos

D. mortui

14. Today you will learn many things about the laws of the Twelve Tables.

A. de legibus

B. ab legibus

C. ex legibus

D. legibus

15. Every evening their father was able to read to them from Aesop's fables.

A. potest

B. potuerat

C. poterit

D. poterat

16. Tarquin the Proud said to the Sybil, "Your books are too expensive, I will not buy THEM."

A. ei

B. eis

C. eorum

D. eos

17. Dido's husband was treacherously killed by her brother, Pygmalion.

A. a fratre

B. ad fratrem

C. fratre

D. fratri

18. Nautae qui in flumine navigabant erant _____.

A. validi viri

B. validos viros

C. validis viris

D. validorum virorum

19. Pelias erat rex turpissimus.

A. wicked

B. more wicked

C. wickedly

D. very wicked

20. Sunt quatttuor pueri et quinque puellae in familia. Quot liberi sunt?

A. VI

B. XI

C. IX

D. XIX

21. The teacher mentioned the first of Hercules' labors, _____, the slaying of the Nemean lion. The Latin abbreviation missing in this sentence is:

A. Q.E.D.

B. P.S.

C. i.e.

D. et al.

22. The valedictorian of the class is the student who gives the:

A. prayer

B. scholarship awards

C. farewell address

D. diplomas

23. During the monarchy Rome was ruled by kings; during the Roman republic _____ ruled.

A. praetors

B. emperors

C. consuls

D. quaestors

24. The epithet, "ox-eyed" was given by Homer to the goddess Hera, whose Roman counterpart was:

A. Minerva

B. Juno

C. Venus

D. Diana

25. A _____ was a well-educated slave who tutored and protected a Roman school boy.

A. paedagogus

B. pontifex

C. aedile

D. censor

26. The three major Mediterranean islands off western Italy are Corsica, Sardinia, and:

A. Crete

B. Cyprus

C. Sicily

D. Rhodes

27. Archaeologists use the annular cross section of tree trunks to help determine the age of the trees. Annular refers to:

A. century

B. color

C. thickness

D. year

28. Echoes of Latin are ubiquitous in the English language. Ubiquitous means:

A. difficult to find

B. pleasant to hear

C. everywhere

D. misunderstood

29. The part of a Roman house that took its name from the columns around its edge was the:

A. alae

B. peristylium

C. vestibulum

D. tablinum

30. The Roman poet who wrote about the Trojan hero Aeneas in the epic poem the Aeneid was:

A. Vergil

B. Caesar

C. Cicero

D. Homer

31. Aurelia, Flaminia, Appia and Sacra are names of Roman _____.

A. pontes

B. flumina

C. viae

D. montes

32. Dea Ceres filiam petebat. Tandem eam in regno Plutonis invenit. Quis erat filia?

A. Daphne

B. Arachne

C. Proserpina

D. Eurydice

33. Pompeii and Herculaneum are located near:

A. the Aegean Sea

B. the Adriatic Sea

C. Mt. Vesuvius

D. Mt. Aetna

34. Which of the following would be found in the atrium of a Roman house?

A. palaestra

B. spina

C. rostra

D. impluvium

35. Place the following in the proper chronological order: 1) explusion of King Tarquinius Superbus 2) death of Augustus 3) Aeneas' flight from Troy 4) assassination of Caesar

A. 1,3,2,4

B. 3,1,4,2

C. 3,4,1,2

D. 4,2,3,1

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