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This is the Prose test for 1979. Please get out a number two pencil and step back and punt.

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A total of 35 questions

1. To whom will you show your gold medal?

A. Cui

B. Qui

C. Quod

D. Cuius

2. I knew what they had done. (Scivi _____.)

A. quid facerent

B. quid faciant

C. quid fecissent

D. quid fecerint

3. Mos maiorum means

A. the month of May

B. the greatest amount

C. the custom of our ancestors

D. a greater delay

4. Res novae means

A. revolution

B. debt

C. grain

D. nine things

5. To manage affairs of state is

A. negotium gerere

B. bellum gerere

C. se gerere

D. rem publicam gerere

6. They discussed the election vehemently.

A. vehementer

B. vehementium

C. vehementissime

D. vehementiores

7. The defendant pleaded "I do not wish to contest."

A. noli tangere

B. nolo contendere

C. non sequitur

D. non possum cantare

8. Claudius effecit _____.

A. hostes victos esse

B. hostes vinci

C. ut hostes vincerentur

D. ad vincendos hostes

9. Si legatus venisset, oppidum he would have saved.

A. servare

B. servabat

C. servavisset

D. servavit

10. Oratorem in foro hodie let us listen to.

A. audiremus

B. audimus

C. audiamus

D. audivimus

11. Fas est is best translated

A. it is fatal

B. it is wrong

C. it is right

D. it is unusual

12. After they had completed the TASK, they walked to MacDonald's.

A. opere confecto

B. opus confectum

C. operum confectorum

D. operis confecti

13. They will drive out the conspirators.

A. expellunt

B. expulerunt

C. expellent

D. expellebant

14. I break : frango : : I broke : ______

A. fixi

B. frui

C. finxi

D. fregi

15. Ad pericula _____ parati sunt.

A. subeunda

B. subeundi

C. subeundo

D. subeundis

16. Sunt alii qui virtute non superent. This clause is

A. indirect question

B. clause of doubt

C. clause of characteristic

D. result clause

17. With great love, magno cum amore, is an ablative of

A. means

B. manner

C. time

D. accompaniment

18. Cicero dixit the ship incensam esse.

A. navem

B. navis

C. navibus

D. navium

19. Cupido arrows usus est ut Daphnen et Apollinem vulneraret.

A. sagittae

B. sagittaes

C. sagittarum

D. sagittis

20. Come to the Bee Gees concert, Paula!

A. venio

B. veni

C. venit

D. venite

21. Patria tacita loquitur is an example of

A. anaphora

B. oxymoron

C. syncope

D. alliteration

22. The mythological founding or Rome involves a

A. snake

B. bear

C. elephant

D. wolf

23. Delenda est carthago was the warning pronounced again and again by

A. Horatius

B. Cincinnatus

C. Brutus

D. Cato

24. The official who presided over the state treasury was a

A. censor

B. praetor

C. tribune

D. quaestor

25. The senatus consultum ultimum was

A. an indictment

B. an ordinary decree

C. a veto

D. a decree to establish martial law

26. We indentify the pax romana with

A. Augustus

B. Sulla

C. Romulus

D. Scipio

27. The sands of the river Pactolus were changed to gold when _____ bathed in it.

A. Meleager

B. Midas

C. Venus

D. Ariadne

28. Which one is not a muse?

A. Atalanta

B. Clio

C. Calliope

D. Urania

29. Nonae octobres is

A. October 1

B. October 15

C. October 31

D. October 7

30. _____ was instrumental in having Cicero's letters published.

A. Archias

B. Catiline

C. Antonius

D. Tiro

31. Natural phenomena such as lightning and eclipses were interpreted by

A. equites

B. augures

C. gladiatores

D. censores

32. The Roman author whose letter recounts the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. is

A. Livy

B. Pliny

C. Horace

D. Sophocles

33. The Eumenides were also known as the

A. Furies

B. Graces

C. Gorgons

D. Muses

34. Two Roman authors who wrote accounts of the Catilinarian conspiracy were Cicero and

A. Caesar

B. Vergil

C. Phaedrus

D. Sallust

35. _____ wrote these plays: captivi, MILES GLORIOSUS, MOSTELLARIA, and MENAECHMI.

A. Aristophanes

B. Plautus

C. Aeschylus

D. Seneca