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This is the Prose test for 1984. Please get out a number two pencil and step back and punt.

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A total of 34 questions

1. If you truly wished to achieve excellence, you must work most diligently.

A. diligenter

B. diligentius

C. diligentissime

D. diligentior

2. In Foro toga _____ gerenda est.

A. cive Romano

B. civi Romano

C. civem Romanum

D. civis Romanus

3. Curemus ne poena _____ maior quam culpa.

A. esset

B. sit

C. fuit

D. est

4. Meus amicus _____ de Colosseo fructus est.

A. oratio

B. oratione

C. orationis

D. orationi

5. Illud est _____!

A. incredibilis

B. incredibile

C. incredibili

D. incredibilem

6. She said nonchantly, "I SHALL THINK about it tomorrow."

A. arbitror

B. arbitrabar

C. arbitrabor

D. arbitrer

7. Scisne cur multae leges bonae a Romanis _____?

A. scriberentur

B. scriptae sunt

C. scribebantur

D. scriptae sint

8. Sacrificio _____, navem solverunt.

A. factum

B. fecisse

C. faciens

D. facto

9. Hodie she is going to ask quid putemus.

A. rogatura erat

B. rogatura est

C. rogata est

D. rogata erit

10. After their visit to Rome, the family was eager to return to athens.

A. Athenae

B. Athenarum

C. Athenis

D. Athenas

11. An ancient election poster reads in part: "Communem nummum dividendum esse censio est." (it is my opinion that the public treasury ______.)

A. has been divided

B. must be divided

C. is divided

D. will be divided

12. Cicero putavit fortunam _____ caecam.

A. est

B. esse

C. fuit

D. erat

13. If everyone had voted, he would have been elected.

A. delectus erit

B. delectus esset

C. delectus erat

D. delectus est

14. Ea quae non intellegis tibi _____ possunt.

A. nocent

B. nocere

C. nocebunt

D. nocitura esset

15. Aegyptus erat magna regio _____ Alexander vicit.

A. quam

B. qui

C. cuius

D. cui

16. Timeo _____ Fulvia sit perfidiosa.

A. ne

B. ut non

C. quin

D. non

17. In that year there was a shortage of grain in Rome.

A. illius anni

B. ille annus

C. illum annum

D. illo anno

18. _____ Ovidius esset poeta notissimus, in exilium tamen missus est.

A. Quod

B. Si

C. Cum

D. Ubi

19. Milo dicitur insignis athleta to have been.

A. esse

B. fuisse

C. fuit

D. futurus esse

20. One would most likely see metae, OVA, SPINA, and DELPHINI at the:

A. Thermae

B. Colosseum

C. Curia

D. Circus Maximus

21. Zeus gave the aegis to ____, his wisest and most beloved daughter.

A. Hera

B. Artemis

C. Hestia

D. Athena

22. Roman law courts usually met in a:

A. basilica

B. curia

C. templum

D. atrium

23. Cicero was given the title pater patriae in recognition of his suppression of the

A. pirates

B. graft in the province of Sicily

C. Pisonian conspiracy

D. Catilinarian conspiracy

24. The expression "God willing" is a translation of

A. Nihil sine Deo

B. Deo volente

C. Deo iuvante

D. In Deo speramus

25. What day would the Romans have written A.D. vii idus decembres?

A. December 20

B. December 15

C. December 7

D. December 30

26. Cicero spent his exile in Macedonia, what was a region of:

A. Italy

B. Africa

C. Greece

D. Britain

27. Which of these would a Roman eat?

A. panis

B. pons

C. scelus

D. pilum

28. She marveled at the work of the lapidary in the shop.

A. weaver

B. stone cutter

C. painter

D. cobbler

29. Cicero's first political speech was in support of the lex manilia which gave command of the war against Mithridates to:

A. Antony

B. Pompey

C. Caesar

D. Augustus

30. Which of these Latin idioms means "caught in the act"?

A. habeas corpus

B. lapsus linguae

C. corpus delicti

D. in flagrante delicto

31. The Romans were sometimes addressed as _____, after the name given to Romulus when he was deified.

A. Optimates

B. Incolae

C. Quirites

D. Patres

32. Caesar's uncle Marius led the Populares in the Civil War against the autocratic dictator, _____.

A. Verres

B. Cassius

C. Sulla

D. Lucullus

33. Do you sometimes immure yourself so that you can really concentrate on your studies?

A. confine

B. reward

C. hypnotize

D. talk to

34. _____, a mortal woman who boasted of her beauty, wealth, and fourteen children, was turned into a weeping stone by Latona.

A. Niobe

B. Lucretia

C. Semele

D. Arachne