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This is the Prose test for 1993. 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 32 questions

1. Parva filia cara _____ est.

A. mei

B. me

C. meo

D. mihi

2. Regulus vir summae virtutis erat.

A. of the greatest courage

B. for the greatest courage

C. by the greatest courage

D. from the greatest courage

3. Domus aurea _____ imperator aedificavit ingens erat.

A. qui

B. quam

C. quae

D. quod

4. Cives audiverunt that cicero had been elected consulem.

A. Ciceronem delectum esse

B. Cicero delectus erit

C. Ciceronem deligi

D. Cicero delectus est

5. Iratus puer fratri imperat ut descendat.

A. as he was climbing down

B. to climb down

C. how he climbed down

D. if he will climb down

6. Discipuli stylis utebantur.

A. had used

B. are used

C. will use

D. were using

7. Quis est vir librum legens?

A. having been read

B. must be read

C. about to read

D. reading

8. Ille praetor iustior quam hic est.

A. for this one

B. to this one

C. than this one

D. from this one

9. Oppido imperatori tradito, cives lacrimaverunt.

A. Since the town must be handed over by the general

B. When the town had been handed over to the general

C. After the general will hand over the town

D. Since the general had been handed over to the town

10. Horatius scripsisse multos libros dicitur.

A. to be going to write

B. to have been written

C. to be written

D. to have written

11. De monte videre Forum we were able.

A. poterimus

B. poteramus

C. possumus

D. potuimus

12. Fulvia fidelissima patriae fuit.

A. very loyal

B. with loyalty

C. more loyal

D. loyally

13. Romani rogabant cur Caesar in Gallia _____.

A. fuerat

B. erat

C. esset

D. est

14. Marce, noli loqui dum magister loquitur.

A. do not speak

B. I do not want to speak

C. no one should speak

D. let us not speak

15. Brutus clamavit, "tyrannus occidendus est!"

A. I shall kill the tyrant!

B. The tyrant must be killed!

C. The tyrant has been killed!

D. The tyrant is dead!

16. Dictator suam opinionem habet.

A. your own

B. our own

C. my own

D. his own

17. They came to watch the parade.

A. ad pompam spectandam

B. spectantes pompam

C. pompa spectata

D. quod pompam spectaverunt

18. Si acrius pugnavissemus, hostes vicessemus.

A. we shall conquer

B. we were conquering

C. we would conquer

D. we would have conquered

19. Illi senatores multos dies convenerunt.

A. daily

B. within many days

C. for many days

D. most of the day

20. Virgines templum in sacro loco aedificatum curaverunt.

A. building

B. about to be built

C. going to build

D. built

21. The Roman official of the Republic who had the right to remove members from the senate and control public morality was the

A. consul

B. tribune

C. praetor

D. censor

22. Books which start halfway through the story and use flashbacks to tell what has already happened are said to begin

A. ex officio

B. mirabile dictu

C. in medias res

D. de facto

23. The Greek king who defeated the Romans but suffered such heavy losses that he is supposed to have said, "One more such victory and I am done for!" was

A. Midas

B. Pyrrhus

C. Mithridates

D. Hannibal

24. From which Latin word is equivalent derived?

A. equus

B. quis

C. aequus

D. aquila

25. One of the reasons that Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, social reformers during the Republic, were killed was that

A. they attempted to redistribute land and give grain to the poor

B. they assassinated one of the consuls

C. they led a slave revolt

D. they collaborated with the Carthaginians

26. The three old women who spin, measure, and cut the thread of life serve as an image of

A. happiness

B. fate

C. justice

D. illness

27. _____ was sent into exile by the same Roman senate that had earlier declared him "Father of the Country."

A. Pompey

B. Cicero

C. Caesar

D. Crassus

28. The naval battle fought at Actium in 31 B.C. brought about the defeat of

A. Antony and Cleopatra

B. Brutus and Cassius

C. Marius and Sulla

D. Castor and Pollux

29. Which river is not located in Italy.

A. Tiber

B. Po

C. Rubicon

D. Rhine

30. Entertainment, CONTINENT, ABSTINENCE, and MALCONTENT are derivatives of the Latin verb:

A. tingere

B. tenere

C. timere

D. tendere

31. A Roman would expect the rostra in the Forum to be used primarily by

A. money changers

B. orators

C. farmers

D. priestesses

32. What two Roman authors expounded upon the ideas and events of their day in their published letters?

A. Livy and Tacitus

B. Plautus and Terence

C. Vergil and Horace

D. Cicero and Pliny the Younger