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This is the Latin 2 test for 1983. 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. Cras milites castra ponere will be able.

A. poterunt

B. poterant

C. potuerunt

D. posse

2. Cives whom delegimus sunt fideles.

A. qui

B. quos

C. quibus

D. quorum

3. The prows of the ships were later transferred to the Forum in Rome.

A. nave

B. navium

C. navis

D. naves

4. Monstrum liberos trembling spectabat.

A. trementes

B. trementia

C. trementibus

D. trementium

5. Legatus rogavit quot oppida a hostibus ____

A. delerent

B. deleant

C. deleta essent

D. deleta sint

6. Monstrate us libros quos scripsistis.

A. nobis

B. nos

C. nostri

D. nostrum

7. Dux urged viros ut fortiter pugnarent.

A. hortatur

B. hortati sunt

C. hortatus est

D. hortatus erit

8. Propter ___ in caelo stellas non videre possumus.

A. nubes

B. nubibus

C. nube

D. nubium

9. Dea dixit se nautas would help.

A. iuvare

B. iuturam esse

C. iuvisse

D. iutam esse

10. Hi libri graviores quam ____ sunt.

A. illos

B. illi

C. illorum

D. illis

11. Labor tam difficilis erat ut viri diutius ____

A. maneant

B. manerent

C. mansissent

D. manebant

12. Do not leave without saying good-bye.

A. non discedis

B. noli discedere

C. ne discedat

D. non discedere

13. We prefer to form our own plan.

A. malumus

B. malebamus

C. maluimus

D. mallemus

14. Omnes mihi persuaserunt ut tacerem.

A. They persuaded everyone to be silent.

B. All men should remain silent.

C. I persuaded everyone to be silent.

D. Everyone persuaded me to be silent.

15. Tribus diebus nomina omnium discipulorum didicerimus.

A. for three days

B. three days later

C. on the third day

D. within three days

16. After his arrival was ANNOUNCED, consul omnes convocavit.

A. Adventu nuntiato

B. Adventum nuntiatum

C. Adventui nuntiato

D. Adventus nuntiatus

17. Si te vidissem, te salutavissem.

A. I will greet you

B. I did greet you

C. I would have greeted you

D. I must greet you

18. The most difficult labor Herculis erat descensus ad Orcum.

A. difficilis

B. difficilior

C. difficilium

D. difficillimus

19. Mea soror esse ____ vult.

A. magistra

B. magistrae

C. magistras

D. magistram

20. Milites viam munituri sunt.

A. must build

B. are about to build

C. have built

D. are building

21. The new rules ameliorated the laborers' working conditions.

A. improved

B. complicated

C. worsened

D. regulated

22. Quis est Minerva?

A. dea solis

B. dea sapientiae

C. dea amoris

D. dea agrorum

23. In ancient Rome the phrase nos morituri te salutamus was uttered by:

A. dictators

B. senators

C. gladiators

D. students

24. Per diem pay is calculated:

A. by the month

B. by the week

C. by the hour

D. by the day

25. Families with common ancestors formed a clan.

A. gens

B. exercitus

C. cognomen

D. res gestae

26. The Trojan War began with the kidnapping of

A. Andromache

B. Dido

C. Venus

D. Helen

27. The region known to the Romans as gallia cisalpina is now

A. Britain

B. Switzerland

C. eastern Spain

D. northern Italy

28. The lares and PENATES were Roman:

A. household gods

B. government buildings

C. religious offerings

D. valuable coins

29. The expression "not of sound mind" is rendered in Latin by the phrase:

A. ne plus ultra

B. nolens volens

C. non sequitur

D. non compos mentis

30. The Roman official in charge of public games and the maintenance of public buildings was the:

A. imperator

B. quaestor

C. consul

D. aedile

31. Hannibal is known for his spectacular:

A. defeat of the city of Rome

B. crossing of the Alps with elephants

C. swimming of the Strait of Messina

D. sailing from Carthage to Greece in one day

32. The ides of a month in the Roman calendar fall on either:

A. the first or last day

B. the 5th or 7th day

C. the 13th or 15th day

D. the 8th or 10th day

33. De gustibus not est DISPUTANDUM is best interpreted:

A. Spare the rod, spoil the child

B. One must not argue about tastes

C. Where there's a will, there's a way

D. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

34. The official who ruled the Roman Republic during times of crisis was a:

A. dictator

B. praetor

C. tribune

D. censor

35. King Pelias ordered Jason to:

A. bring back the golden fleece

B. retrieve Cerberus from the Underworld

C. tame the winged horse Pegasus

D. kill the Nemean lion