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This is the Poetry test for 1989. 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. The Vestal Virgins were sacred priestesses by whom the flame in Vesta's temple was protected.

2. Orpheus declared that he would always LOVE Eurydice.

3. If Sisyphus had wished to be called a friend of the gods, he would not have betrayed their secrets.

4. Quis scit cur talia fecerit?

5. As soon as I HAVE MADE UP MY MIND, I will write to you.

6. Temporibus antiquis oraculum Apollinis ____ erat.

7. "Odysseus, do not approach the cave of Polyphemus!"

8. Hector, dux Troianus, _____ Achillis resistere non iam potuit.

9. "my father, I await our instructions."

10. Hannibal victus Romanos metu liberavit.

11. Augustus Caesar bibliothecam clarissimam ___ causa aedificavit.

12. The emperor will ask the magistrates what they decided at their last meeting.

13. If those men truly loved Rome, they would not be setting out for Spain now.

14. Veritus sum ne diceres.

15. Legatos ad imperatorem mittent rogatum auxiliium.

16. "Vincere scis, Hannibal, victoria uti nescis."

17. Nemo fuit diligentior quam Tacitus ___ nos omnes laudamus.

18. Cum Sibyllinos libros ad vos attulero, eos diligenter intenteque legitote.

19. Sociis a nobis credendum est.

20. On the ninth day the sailors spotted land.

21. Avus, CONSOBRINA, NEPOS, and SOCER are words used to denote Roman:

22. The goddess _____ in her three different manifestations, is associated with Proserpina, Hecate, and Luna.

23. "Hos inimica super mixto premit agmine turbo." The metrical pattern of this line is:

24. What Latin verb is the root of the English derivatives desultory, RESILIENT, ASSAULT, and SALIENT?

25. Aeneas was bound to Anchises by:

26. Much of the material for Shakespeare's three plays based on ancient Roman characters was gleaned from the work of the ancient biographer:

27. The hill on the west bank of the Tiber at Rome, which served as a defensive outpost, and was later incorporated into the Aurelian Wall is called the:

28. In poetry, the forms superum and DEUM may mean:

29. The miles gloriosus, MOSTELLARIA, and AULARLARIA were comedies written by the Roman author:

30. Apicius tells us that garum was an important item in Roman:

31. After Jason sailed from the Aegean sea through the Hellespont, he entered the:

32. The English words cohesive and INHERENT are derived from the Latin verb HAEREO meaning:

33. The first temples built by the Romans show the influence of earlier Italian inhabitants, the ____.

34. Hermes was sometimes called Argeiphontes because he was the slayer of the hundred-eyed monster Argus, who was sent by Juno to guard:

35. The Latin word pecunia reveals that tahe economy of the earliest Romans depended on: