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This is the Prose test for 1978. Please get out a number two pencil and step back and punt.

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A total of 35 questions

1. I WAS WALKING through the forum.

A. ambulavi

B. ambulabam

C. ambulo

D. ambulabo

2. Illius temporis is best translated

A. by that time

B. for these times

C. of that time

D. to that time

3. Whose books are you using? (Cuius ____ uteris?)

A. libros

B. libri

C. librorum

D. libris

4. Which verb is most likely to serve as predicate for the noun avis?

A. peccat

B. volat

C. postulat

D. suadet

5. Scimus eos fought.

A. pugnare

B. pugnavisse

C. pugnari

D. pugnatos esse

6. He was afraid that i would win. (Timebat ____ vincerem.)

A. ut

B. ut non

C. ne

D. quin

7. They will go to the senate.

A. irent

B. ibant

C. ibunt

D. eunt

8. Illud quod _____ erat factum est.(That which had to be done, was done.)

A. faciendi

B. faciendo

C. faciendum

D. facienda

9. Eamus means

A. we went

B. let us go

C. we shall go

D. we are going

10. Discipuli in the summer ludunt.

A. aestatis

B. aestate

C. aestatem

D. aestati

11. To have done is translated.

A. egisse

B. actum esse

C. agi

D. agere

12. Si Catilina eos videat, consilia _____. (If Catiline should see them, he would change the plans.)

A. mutat

B. mutet

C. mutaret

D. mutabit

13. After the message had been sent … (Nuntio _____)

A. misso

B. missus

C. mittit

D. missis

14. There is still hope.

A. spe

B. spei

C. spem

D. spes

15. The power of the consul is great.

A. consulum

B. consule

C. consulem

D. consulis

16. I ask why he is coming. (Rogo cur _____.)

A. venit

B. veniet

C. veniat

D. venisset

17. He wanted to stay longer.

A. vult

B. vellet

C. volet

D. voluit

18. I urge you to leave the city, Catiline.

A. ut discedatis

B. ut discederes

C. ut discedas

D. ut discedat

19. Speak slowly, senators.

A. dicite

B. dic

C. dicunt

D. dicent

20. The war lasted ten years.

A. decem annis

B. decem anni

C. decem annorum

D. decem annos

21. A law with retroactive effect is

A. ex officio

B. ipso facto

C. ante tempus

D. ex post facto

22. "Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas …" is the rhetorical figure

A. alliteration

B. anaphora

C. antithesis

D. hyperbole

23. The author of de amicitia, and PRO ARCHIA is

A. Seneca

B. Juvenal

C. Vergil

D. Cicero

24. Two Roman historians were Livy and

A. Tacitus

B. Thucydides

C. Martial

D. Plautus

25. The final destruction of Carthage was in

A. 146 B.C.

B. 44 B.C.

C. 79 A.D.

D. 509 B.C.

26. Judges in civil and criminal cases were called

A. consuls

B. praetors

C. censors

D. quaestors

27. The speaker's platform from which Cicero often spoke was called the

A. Forum

B. Basilica

C. Rostra

D. Colosseum

28. The two most famous ancient orators were Cicero and

A. Virgil

B. Livy

C. Cincinnatus

D. Demosthenes

29. Cursus honorum refers to

A. order of offices

B. courts of Rome

C. Roman roads

D. gladiatorial awards

30. Libya was another name for

A. Alesia

B. Africa

C. Dacia

D. Hispania

31. Clytemnestra and Aegisthus plotted to murder

A. Ajax

B. Agamemnon

C. Orestes

D. Achilles

32. Who turned into a laurel tree?

A. Dido

B. Daphne

C. Diana

D. Delphi

33. Jupiter's golden apples were tended by the

A. Gorgons

B. Hesperides

C. Graces

D. Fates

34. The best definition for the Latin derivative virility is

A. greeness

B. manliness

C. violence

D. worthiness

35. Which is the source of the English word moratorium?

A. murus

B. morior

C. moror

D. mores