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This is the Latin 1 test for 1987. 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 town had been famous as the birthplace of Vergil.

2. "mone cives de periculo," deus regi dixit.

3. Jupiter sent Mercury, the messenger of the gods, to the Underworld.

4. Coriolani mater oravit, "Noli oppugnare Romam."

5. Horatius _____ contra Etruscos defendebat.

6. Clarus poeta _____ libros dedit.

7. Whose mother was named Cornelia?

8. Erisne, _____, primus imperator Romanus?

9. Many did not see the flames on the shore.

10. Potes manere prope Forum.

11. There are many frescoes in the villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii.

12. Cives Romani togas gesserunt.

13. Currebamus ad flumen _____ erat proper silvam.

14. Remus erat Romuli _____.

15. Diana hunted with a bow and arrows.

16. The children decided to watch the gladiators.

17. Although Jupiter and Mercury did not appear as gods, Baucis and Philemon were friendly to them.

18. A rege ad ianuas templi ducemur.

19. Vergil was widely believed to be a great poet.

20. Caesar de bello very bitter scripsit.

21. Viginti minus quattuor sunt:

22. The abbreviation P.S. stands for:

23. Acanthus leaves usually decorate the capital of the _____ column, the most ornate of the three architectural orders.

24. The conflicts between the Romans and the Carthaginians are known as the _____ Wars.

25. Venus : Aphrodite :: Minerva : _____

26. A person's appellation is his:

27. The opening in the ceiling of the atrium in a Roman house was called the:

28. Initially the Via Appia led from Rome to Capua; later it was extended to:

29. Mansions built in America before the Civil War are often referred to as:

30. The Roman Forum is located between the Capitoline and the _____ hills in Rome.

31. _____ was the youth who disobeyed his father's admonition not to fly too close to the sun lest his wax wings melt.

32. The English word postpositive is derived rom the Latin verb:

33. The month whose name is derived from the Roman god with two faces is:

34. Ceres, goddess of _____, is often pictured with a cornucopia.

35. In 509 B.C., Rome's first two consuls were: