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This is the Latin 1 test for 1985. 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 centaur Chiron was the teacher of many heroes.

A. magister

B. magistro

C. magistrum

D. magistri

2. Filia regis auxilium to the sailor dabat.

A. ad nautam

B. nautae

C. per nautam

D. nauta

3. Novem minus quattuor sunt:

A. tres

B. decem

C. quinque

D. sex

4. Nautae ad insulam Siciliam venerant.

A. will come

B. have come

C. had come

D. did come

5. Bellerophon rode the winged horse Pegasus into the sky toward Mt. Olympus.

A. in caelum

B. in caelo

C. caelo

D. a caelo

6. Venus puellae quattuor tasks dedit.

A. laborem

B. labores

C. laborum

D. laboribus

7. The sun shone brightly over the billowing sea.

A. clari

B. clare

C. clara

D. claro

8. Aeneas placed the golden bough at the door of the palace of Proserpina.

A. ponit

B. posuit

C. ponet

D. posuerat

9. The flight of the birds was observed by the augurs.

A. avem

B. aves

C. avibus

D. avium

10. Hoc negotium A NOBIS factus est.

A. by us

B. by you

C. by me

D. by him

11. Iris, the messenger of Juno, was also goddess of the rainbow.

A. nuntiae

B. nuntiam

C. nuntia

D. nuntiis

12. Whose house shall we see on the Palatine Hill?

A. cuius

B. quae

C. quam

D. qua

13. Stand, milites, ad portam castrorum.

A. Sta

B. Stare

C. Stant

D. State

14. Midas was the king to whom Dionysus gave the golden touch.

A. qui

B. quem

C. quocum

D. cui

15. Aeneas multa pericula superare poterat.

A. is able

B. was able

C. will be able

D. will have been able

16. Multa verba ab oraculo have been spoken.

A. dicuntur

B. dicta erant

C. dicta sunt

D. dicentur

17. Multae linguae semper erunt in Europa.

A. are

B. were

C. will be

D. have been

18. Magister tres reges _____ in pictura vidit.

A. magnum

B. magnos

C. magnis

D. magni

19. Magna victoria viris feminisque oppidi nuntiabatur.

A. announces

B. is announced

C. was being announced

D. announced

20. Hoc atrium est maximum et pulcherrimum.

A. this

B. itself

C. that

D. his

21. The mountain range running down through the center of Italy is:

A. Alps

B. Apennines

C. Pyrenees

D. Jura

22. The virgin goddess who was the protectress of hearth, home, and public buildings was:

A. Vesta

B. Venus

C. Juno

D. Ceres

23. A girl received her name from her father's:

A. domus

B. prandium

C. nomen

D. paedagogus

24. A Latin phrase often found on the face of a clock is:

A. per se

B. tabula rasa

C. ipso facto

D. tempus fugit

25. In 60 B.C. Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed the First:

A. Consulship

B. Dictatorship

C. Tribunate

D. Triumvirate

26. The term terra incognita, often found on ancient maps, means:

A. enemy territoy

B. mountainous land

C. unexplored region

D. inhabited area

27. Amity was the keynote of the ambassador's speeches.

A. Optimism

B. Challenge

C. Hope

D. Friendship

28. The god who became the patron of tragic drama for the Athenians and who taught men to cultivate the vine and grapes was:

A. Apollo

B. Zeus

C. Dionysus

D. Ares

29. The phrase cave canem was often seen:

A. on a water fountain

B. at a doorway

C. on an aqueduct

D. on an arch

30. When Mt. Vesuvius erputed in 79 A.D., the cities of Herculaneum, Stabiae and _____ were destroyed.

A. Capua

B. Pompeii

C. Ostia

D. Brundisium

31. Which of these was not located in ancient Rome?

A. Circus Maximus

B. Parthenon

C. Colosseum

D. Campus Martius

32. Signs were posted at the factory entrance to notify itinerant workers of job opportunities.

A. construction

B. elderly

C. volunteer

D. travelling

33. The fifth or seventh day of a Roman month was known as the:

A. Nones

B. Kalends

C. Fasces

D. Ides

34. Achilles, Odysseus and Hector were heroes of the _____ War.

A. Punic

B. Peloponnesian

C. Trojan

D. Persian

35. The favorite daughter of Zeus, _____ , is said to have spring fully armed from the head of her father.

A. Artemis

B. Hestia

C. Athena

D. Hera