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This is the Latin 2 test for 1980. Please get out a number two pencil and step back and punt.

Be advised that some questions may not appear; these questions need to be fixed. I have excluded them until they are corrected. Some of these include questions which have multiple answers as well as older questions for which I need to create a map.

A total of 35 questions

1. We shall have read excerpts from COMMENTARII DE BELLO GALLICO by the end of the year.

2. The Greeks waged war against Troy for ten years.

3. In 392 B.C. the Gauls were about to seize the Capitol.

4. Ovid tells us that the gods lived on Mount Olympus.

5. The Styx and the Lethe are rivers in the Lower World.

6. Jason ad Colchidem navigavit ut vellus aureum ______.

7. "Romans, do not make peace with Carthage!" warned Regulus. (Romani, ____ pacem cum Carthagine!" monuit Regulus.)

8. In the Gallic Wars, Labienus was Caesar's most trusted lieutenant

9. Midas erat rex to whom Dionysius contactum aureum dedit.

10. For the sake of peace, they made a treaty. (____ causa foedus fecerunt.)

11. Horatius pontem Sublicium defendet.

12. Let'S GO to the Olympic Games this year!

13. Medusa _______ interficienda erat. (Perseus had to slay the Medusa.)

14. Consilio capto, Caesar legatum proficisci iussit.

15. At home, the Romans removed their shoes while reclining at dinner.

16. We can easily finish this National Latin Exam in less than one hour.

17. Tell me, tiberius, why you prefer to stay on Capri.

18. Romulus _____ imperavit ut Sabinas caperent. (Romulus ordered the Romans to seize the Sabine women.)

19. Doceo : docui :: disco : ____________

20. Latin students know which Roman poet wrote the epic about the founding of Rome.

21. In the Roman army, the official in charge of the soldiers' pay was the

22. Caesar's praenomen was:

23. We shall augment our income this summer.

24. The abbreviations E.G. stands for the Latin words meaning:

25. The harbor and seaport of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber was:

26. The constellation Gemini is named for ____, twin brothers of Helen of Troy.

27. In Caesar's time, modern Spain and Portugal were known as:

28. The fall of the Western Roman Empire occurred in the year:

29. In 63 B.C. Caesar became the head of the Roman state religion and was called:

30. P. Scipio Africanus the Younger is best remembered in Roman history for:

31. In mythology, the hero who led the Argonauts was:

32. One who is persona non grata is:

33. A Roman running for public office wore a:

34. The word aestivate means

35. A QUINQUENNIAL period refers to five _____.