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This is the Latin 2 test for 1989. 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. Daphne deum Apollinem celerrime effugit.

A. quickly

B. rather quickly

C. more quickly

D. very quickly

2. Deucalion and Pyrrha repopulated the earth with rocks.

A. pro saxis

B. saxa

C. apud saxa

D. saxis

3. Nemo verba Cassandrae, ___ regis, audivit.

A. filia

B. filiae

C. filiam

D. filiarum

4. Let Paris ANNOUNCE his decision.

A. nuntiat

B. nuntiabat

C. nuntiet

D. nuntiavit

5. ___ monstra a Perseo interfecta sunt?

A. Quis

B. Quid

C. Quod

D. Quae

6. Ulixes et viri the approach Polyphemi magnopere timuerunt.

A. aditu

B. aditui

C. aditum

D. aditus

7. Post mortem Romulus ___ appellatus est.

A. deum

B. deus

C. dei

D. deo

8. Cum amicis Latine cras ___

A. colloquimur

B. colloquemur

C. collocuti sumus

D. colloqui

9. Icarus, a patre ___ altius volavit.

A. monens

B. monitus

C. moniti

D. monere

10. Tarquinius Superbus erat crudelior ___

A. ceteri reges

B. ceteris regibus

C. ceteros reges

D. ceterorum regum

11. Tria capita ___ erant.

A. cani Cerbero

B. canis Cerberus

C. canem Cerberum

D. cane Cerbero

12. Nolite ___ pueros puellasque ad Minotaurum!

A. mittere

B. mittitis

C. mittetis

D. mitti

13. Fabulam de bello Troiano ___ narrabo.

A. eis

B. eos

C. eum

D. id

14. Virgine ___, Perseus domum rediit.

A. servatus

B. servata

C. servatum

D. servatis

15. Infans Hercules erat tam potens ut duos serpentes strangulare ____.

A. potest

B. posset

C. poterat

D. posse

16. Multi putaverunt Caesare esse regem ___

A. voluit

B. voluisset

C. volens

D. velle

17. Sibylla Aeneae imperat ut ramum aureum ___.

A. petiverit

B. petivisset

C. peteret

D. petat

18. Dictator Romanus in imperio sex menses erat.

A. within six months

B. for six months

C. in the sixth month

D. by the sixth month

19. Caesar pontem trans Rhenum structurus est.

A. has built

B. must build

C. is going to build

D. has been built

20. Pars ___ in castris mansit.

A. peditum

B. pedites

C. peditibus

D. pedes

21. In 510 B.C. Brutus and Collatinus were responsible for the

A. kidnapping of the Sabine women

B. destruction of Alba Longa

C. defeat of Pyrrhus

D. expulsion of the Tarquins

22. Two attributes of Athena were:

A. trident and horse

B. sickle and sheaf of wheat

C. aegis and owl

D. forge and anvil

23. The Latin verb from which repetition is derived means

A. sell

B. send

C. survive

D. seek

24. One would read the history of the founding of Rome in the works of:

A. Ovid

B. Livy

C. Caesar

D. Plautus

25. Arrange the following in the correct chronological order: 1 the First Triumvirate is formed; 2 Octavian defeats Antony at Actium; 3 Marius and Sulla wage a civil war; 4 Scipio Africanus destroys Carthage.

A. 3,4,1,2

B. 4,3,2,1

C. 3,2,4,1

D. 4,3,1,2

26. The presiding judge at a Roman trial was the:

A. quaestor

B. praetor

C. aedile

D. censor

27. Deus Romanus cui sunt duae facies est:

A. Apollo

B. Janus

C. Pluto

D. Mars

28. Select the pair which is mismatched.

A. Theseus and Ariadne

B. Orpheus and Andromeda

C. Jason and Medea

D. Dido and Aeneas

29. Triplex acies refers to:

A. an award for military victory

B. the legal order for political office

C. a special religious sacrifice

D. a Roman battle formation

30. ___ was assigned the impossible tasks of fetching water from the river Styx and obtaining Proserpina's beauty secrets.

A. Psyche

B. Pandora

C. Arachne

D. Callisto

31. The Roman maiden who betrayed the capital to the Sabines and whose name was later given to the rock from which traitors were hurled to their death was:

A. Rhea Silvia

B. Tarpeia

C. Lucretia

D. Virginia

32. I always carry my Latin book with me. It is my ___

A. ex post facto

B. in toto

C. vade mecum

D. non sequiture

33. In ten days, Caesar bridged the Rhine in order to invade:

A. Hispania

B. Hibernia

C. Illyricum

D. Germania

34. Cincinnatus, Sulla, and Caesar all held the title:

A. emperor

B. censor

C. pharaoh

D. dictator

35. Mars: Ares :: Diana : ___

A. Artemis

B. Aphrodite

C. Hestia

D. Demeter