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This is the Latin 2 test for 2008. 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 28 questions

1. Matris fabula erat notissima.

A. Mother's

B. To mother

C. With mother

D. Mother

2. Germani a Romanis vincebantur.

A. are conquered

B. were being conquered

C. will be conquered

D. have been conquered

3. Cui rex pecuniam dedit?

A. Whose

B. To whom

C. Whom

D. With whom

4. Pueri in agris tres horas laboraverunt.

A. in three years

B. after three years

C. for three hours

D. about three hours

5. Servos in horto ambulantes spectavit.

A. about to walk

B. to walk

C. having walked

D. walking

6. Discipuli quam saepissime libros legere debent.

A. as often as possible

B. however often

C. more often

D. often

7. Senator putavit consulem esse in urbe.

A. had been

B. is

C. was

D. will be

8. Soror mea heri discedere voluerat.

A. wanted

B. had wanted

C. will want

D. wants

9. Iter trans Alpes erat longissimum.

A. long

B. longer

C. rather long

D. very long

10. Ceres Proserpinam, _____, per orbem terrarum petivit.

A. sua filia

B. suae filiae

C. suam filiam

D. suarum filiarum

11. Noli narrare, Luci, totam fabulam.

A. Don't tell

B. I didn't tell

C. I'm not telling

D. He cannot tell

12. Tres et quindecim sunt

A. octo

B. tredicim

C. sedecim

D. duodeviginti

13. Aedificium, _____ parvus puer vidit, magnum erat.

A. qui

B. quae

C. quod

D. cuius

14. Gladiis strictis, gladiatores pugnare coeperunt.

A. to draw swords

B. swords having been drawn

C. drawing swords

D. about to draw swords

15. Nec mater Nec pater de donis scit.

A. Both … and

B. Each … and

C. Neither … nor

D. Either … or

16. Liber ab omnibus pueris legetur.

A. by all the boys

B. for all the boys

C. of all the boys

D. about all the boys

17. Quando eorum parentes pervenerunt?

A. How

B. Why

C. How many

D. When

18. Clamores liberorum per vias audiri poterant.

A. to hear

B. to be heard

C. will be heard

D. were heard

19. The lawyer portrayed the witness as veracious.

A. unreliable

B. truthful

C. defiant

D. confused

20. Marcus Favonius dicit, "Quid novi est hodie? brevi tempore videbimus."

A. Now

B. For a long time

C. Never

D. Soon

21. An ancient Roman would hear shouts such as "Verbera!" and "Hoc habet!" and "Ave, imperator, morituri te salutamus!"

A. in a school

B. at the Curia

C. in a temple

D. at the Colosseum

22. The first emperor of Rome who brought about a lengthy period of peace known as the Pax Romana was

A. Romulus

B. Augustus

C. Constantine

D. Aeneas

23. Which Latin phrase should you remember if you are thinking of buying a used car?

A. caveat emptor

B. cum laude

C. cave canem

D. divide et impera

24. King Pelias ordered Jason to

A. obtain the Golden Fleece

B. bring Cerberus from the Underworld

C. kill the Gorgon medusa

D. tame the winged horse Pegasus

25. The tour leader called the group's attention to the abbreviation S.P.Q.R. which symbolized Roman

A. mythology

B. education

C. government

D. slavery

26. Quae insula est proxima Italiae?

A. Creta

B. Delos

C. Sicilia

D. Cyprus

27. The pontifex maximus, the VESTALS, and the PENATES were all important Roman

A. religious figures

B. military officers

C. educational institutions

D. mythological transformations

28. Scipio Africanus the Elder is best remembered for

A. writing the De Bello Gallico

B. expelling the last king of Rome

C. revising the calendar

D. defeating Hannibal