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

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A total of 34 questions

1. Aeneas persuaded his father Anchises to follow him from burning Troy.

A. pater

B. patri

C. patrem

D. patris

2. Numen means:

A. name

B. divinity

C. number

D. light

3. Haec res est facilis cognitu.

A. a cognitive fact

B. easy to learn

C. a well-known facility

D. a show of force

4. The correct translation of verebimini is:

A. you will be feared

B. you have feared

C. you will fear

D. you were feared

5. Magister dixit puerum qui tabellas FERRET esse benignum.

A. who was carrying

B. in order to carry

C. who must carry

D. who will carry

6. Libro alio scripto, auctor alium scribere incepit.

A. after he wrote to one child

B. when one book had been written

C. since the free slave was enlisted

D. although another scribe was freed

7. The fans were watching the Dallas quarterback running with the football.

A. currentem

B. cursum

C. currendum

D. cursurum

8. "Tum breviter Dido, vultum demissa, profatur."

A. steps forward

B. weeps

C. speaks

D. dies

9. Zeus sent Sisyphus to the region of the Underworld called Tartarus to punish him.

A. punitum esse

B. ut puniret

C. qui puniant

D. ne punivisset

10. Gemitus means

A. race

B. knee

C. ancestor

D. groan

11. "Cerberus haec ingens latratu regna trifauci personat." With which word does haec agree?

A. Cerberus

B. latratu

C. regna

D. trifauci

12. The masts of the taller ships were splintered by the winds.

A. altioris navis

B. altiorum navium

C. altiores naves

D. altiori navi

13. Gilbert Highet was a very famous classical scholar.

A. clarissimum

B. clarior

C. clarissimus

D. clarius

14. If Ovid had not been banished to Tomi, he would have composed happier poems.

A. non expulsus esset

B. non expelleretur

C. non expulsus sit

D. non expellatur

15. Tanta erat tempestas ut omnes naves __________________

A. deletae sunt

B. delerentur

C. delebantur

D. deletas esse

16. Viginti et quadraginta fiunt:

A. septuaginta

B. sexaginta

C. quinquaginta

D. octoginta

17. "intonuere poli et crebris micat ignibus aether…"

A. about to thunder

B. thundering

C. thundered

D. to have thundered

18. Nonis octobribus is:

A. October 1

B. October 7

C. October 31

D. October 15

19. "Alloquitur talesque effundit pectore questus." This line contains an elision between:

A. alloquitur and talesque

B. talesque and effundit

C. effundit and pectore

D. pectore and questus

20. Quid pro quo is best translated:

A. tit for tat

B. for the public good

C. at first sight

D. retroactive

21. A SOPORIFIC lecture is:

A. informative

B. sleep-inducing

C. depressing

D. political

22. Dido vowed eternal fidelity to _____, her Phoenician husband.

A. Pygmalion

B. Iarbas

C. Sychaeus

D. Achates

23. Which is not an appellation of the Fates?

A. Fata

B. Parcae

C. Moirae

D. Eumenides

24. The priest of Neptune who was strangled with his two sons by twin serpents was:

A. Calchas

B. Tiresias

C. Nestor

D. Laocoon

25. As a result of his Judgment, Paris was awarded the most beautiful woman by the goddess ______.

A. Athena

B. Aphrodite

C. Eris

D. Hera

26. Another name for Troy was:

A. Macedonia

B. Thracia

C. Campania

D. Ilium

27. The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who was sacrificed for favorable winds was:

A. Helen

B. Electra

C. Iphigenia

D. Andromeda

28. The Palladium was:

A. a temple dedicated to Vesta

B. a wooden statue of Athena

C. a temple to all the gods

D. the Flavian amphitheater

29. A Roman would most likely use a fibula:

A. on clothing

B. in cooking

C. while building a road

D. when writing a book

30. The city founded by Ascanius was:

A. Rome

B. Alba Longa

C. Cumae

D. Lavinium

31. The defendant was exonerated by the judge after the trial.

A. censured

B. imprisoned

C. freed from the charge

D. commended

32. Which of the following words has a root and meaning unrelated to the other three?

A. fames

B. fatum

C. infans

D. fama

33. The Peloponnesus, named for the father of Atreus, is in:

A. Italy

B. Greece

C. France

D. Turkey

34. The planet _____ is farthest from the light of the sun and is called the "dark planet."

A. Jupiter

B. Mars

C. Neptune

D. Pluto