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A total of 35 questions

1. The poetic form posuere is translated:

A. to place

B. they have placed

C. placing

D. having been placed

2. Decem diebus oraculum respondit.

A. On the tenth day

B. For ten days

C. After ten days

D. Within ten days

3. Let us rejoice in our recent victory.

A. Gaudeamus

B. Gaudemus

C. Gavisi sumus

D. Gaudebimus

4. Imperator legatum ______ praefecit.

A. decima legio

B. decimae legionis

C. decimae legioni

D. decima legione

5. The goddess Aurora loved Tithonus, the brother of King Priam.

A. frater

B. fratre

C. fratris

D. fratrem

6. Nave ____, Argonautae Colchidem navigaverunt.

A. constructa

B. construens

C. construere

D. construxisse

7. Ceres rogavit quo filia Proserpina _____.

A. ierit

B. ierat

C. ibat

D. iisset

8. Aeneas Troia discessit urbem _____ (Aeneas departed from Troy to found a city.)

A. conditum

B. condet

C. conditu

D. conditit

9. Cleopatra feared that she might be taken back to Rome.

A. reducatur

B. reduceretur

C. reduxerit

D. reducta sit

10. Dico:dixi::cano: _____

A. cucurri

B. cecini

C. celavi

D. cecidi

11. At cumae there was a famous oracle of Apollo.

A. Cumae

B. Cumis

C. Cumas

D. Cumarum

12. Nilus Pado _____ longior est. (The Nile is much longer than the Po.)

A. multus

B. multum

C. multo

D. multi

13. Animalia _____ vidimus erant ferocissima.

A. qui

B. quae

C. quas

D. quos

14. Horatius _____ fruebatur.

A. vita tranquilla

B. vitae tranquillae

C. vitas tranquillas

D. vitam tranquillam

15. Multi ad Graeciam oraculi ____ causa venerunt.

A. consulendum

B. consulere

C. consultum

D. consulendi

16. If you had lived in Pompeii in 79 A.D., you would have witnessed the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

A. habitavisses

B. habitares

C. habitaveras

D. habites

17. Magnopere:magis::late: ________

A. latus

B. latiores

C. latius

D. latissime

18. Aeneas patrem Anchisen umeris ferens ex patria excessit.

A. bearing

B. having borne

C. about to bear

D. must bear

19. Libertas iustitiaque _____ defendae sunt.

A. nos

B. nobis

C. nostram

D. nostrum

20. Dido sensit se ab Aenea ______>

A. relictam esse

B. reliquisse

C. relinquere

D. relicturum esse

21. "Non indebita posco regna meis fatis" illustrates the poetic figure:

A. metonymy

B. zeugma

C. oxymoron

D. litotes

22. Boreas, Notus, and Zephyrus were_____.

A. winds

B. Ocean gods

C. mountains

D. Titans

23. Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, slew the aged King ______ at the altars of his own palace in Troy.

A. Dardanus

B. Priam

C. Teucer

D. Laomedon

24. The Latin expression that means "by virtue of his position" is:

A. ex post facto

B. ex libris

C. ex officio

D. ex tempore

25. With his victory at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., Octavian defeated ______ and thus became the sole ruler of the Roman World.

A. Antony

B. Brutus

C. Pompey

D. Cassius

26. Which Emperor sought to restore old Republican ways, revive simple customs and build temples?

A. Tiberius

B. Augustus

C. Marcus Aurelius

D. Caligula

27. The charm worn by Roman children was called the:

A. bulla

B. oculus

C. caligae

D. fibula

28. The translation of the Latin saying "Verbum sat sapienti" is:

A. A word to the wise is sufficient.

B. A wise word is sufficient.

C. His word is wise.

D. The wise are wordy.

29. The reign of Augustus ushered in a period known as the:

A. Optimum Imperium

B. Scutum Aureum

C. Pax Romana

D. Orbis Terrarum

30. The priestess ________, who scorned the love of Apollo, prophsied the downfall of Troy, but no one would believe her.

A. Sybil

B. Calchas

C. Cassandra

D. Tiresias

31. With what Roman institution are the following terms associated: epithalamium, CONFARREATIO, TALASSIO, DOS?

A. funerals

B. birth of a child

C. weddings

D. dedication of a temple

32. Her joy was ineffable when she heard that she had won first prize.

A. overwhelming

B. evident

C. inexpressible

D. sincere

33. With what genre of literature does one associate Plautus and Terence?

A. tragedy

B. history

C. epic poetry

D. comedy

34. "Namque ita discedens praeceperat optimus armis." The number of dactyls in this line is:

A. one

B. two

C. three

D. four

35. Vergil's work consisting of four books on farming is entitled:

A. Eclogues

B. Culex

C. Georgics

D. Catalepton

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