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This is the Poetry test for 1978. Please get out a number two pencil and step back and punt.

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A total of 35 questions

1. In agris sunt flores pulchri which multurm amamus.

A. qui

B. quae

C. quos

D. quas

2. Which noun does not mean sea?

A. aura

B. mare

C. pontus

D. aequor

3. Which of the following is a diminuitive?

A. bonus

B. acriter

C. navicula

D. navis

4. Incolumis means

A. on a column

B. unsettled

C. dangerous

D. unharmed

5. Conamur means

A. we will try

B. we try

C. let us try

D. we tried

6. The Greeks asked why Achilles remained in his tent:

A. manebat

B. manserat

C. maneret

D. manet

7. he is said to have preferred Greek studies:

A. malle

B. maluisse

C. voluit

D. maluit

8. He seems to be stronger since his recovery:

A. fortis

B. fortiorem

C. fortior

D. fortissimum

9. Bring me the golden bought, Aeneas!

A. Fer

B. Fert

C. Fers

D. Ferte

10. Helen is the most beautiful woman in the world.

A. pulchrior

B. pulcherrima

C. pulchra

D. pulcherrimam

11. Dido dixit se diu had grieved:

A. dolere

B. doluit

C. dolentem

D. doluisse

12. If he had been there, he would have been hurt:

A. adesse

B. adsit

C. adfuisset

D. adfuerat

13. He saved his money lest he be poor in his old age:

A. ut non

B. ne

C. num

D. nonne

14. "hic, Dolopum manus, hic saevus tendebat Achilles: classibus hic locus, hic acie certare solebant"

A. anaphora

B. alliteration

C. personification

D. simile

15. The fifth foot of a dactylic hexameter is usually a:

A. dactyl

B. spondee

C. caesura

D. trochee

16. He learned a great deal by reading:

A. legere

B. legendo

C. lectum

D. lecturus

17. The phrase optimum factu means:

A. an excellent deed

B. the best one did it

C. the best thing to do

D. the most important fact

18. Excessurus est means:

A. he is left

B. he left

C. he is about to leave

D. it must be left

19. Aeneas Didonem, _________ Carthaginis, amavit:

A. reginae

B. reginis

C. reginam

D. regina

20. What is the construction of the capitalized word: "Exegi monumentum aere perennius"?

A. ablative of manner

B. ablative of agent

C. ablative of accompaniment

D. ablative of comparison

21. Advent means

A. departure

B. arrival

C. support

D. prominence

22. Itinerant means

A. travelling

B. happy

C. metallic

D. cloudy

23. The iliad, the ODYSSEY, and the AENEID are examples of:

A. lyric poetry

B. epic poetry

C. didactic poetry

D. satire

24. The first emperor of Rome was:

A. Tiberius

B. Augustus

C. Nero

D. Marcus Aurelius

25. Which of the following is a river in the Underworld?

A. Styx

B. Euphrates

C. Tiber

D. Arno

26. The date kal.SEPT. is:

A. August 31

B. September 1

C. August 30

D. September 30

27. Who was the mother of Astyanax and wife of Hector?

A. Cassiopeia

B. Andromache

C. Creusa

D. Cassandra

28. The well-known patron of many poets in Augustus' day was:

A. Midas

B. Horace

C. Maecenas

D. Sallust

29. Aeneas visited the sybil of Apollo's oracfle at:

A. Cumae

B. Gaul

C. Rome

D. the Libyan desert

30. "To the stars through difficulties," the motto of the state of Kansas, is:

A. Ad astra per aspera

B. Ad infinitum

C. Ad aspera per astra

D. Ars longa vita brevis

31. A leading lyric poet of the Golden Age who wrote odes, EPodes, and SATIRES was:

A. Vergil

B. Tibullus

C. Horace

D. Terence

32. Augustus commissioned Agrippa to build in honor of all the gods what famous monument which still stands today?

A. Pantheon

B. Colosseum

C. Forum

D. Curia

33. The builder of the Labyrinth at Crete in which the minotaur was imprisoned was:

A. Charon

B. Daedalus

C. Ariadne

D. Demeter

34. One of our main sources for the stories of the myths is the metamorphoses by

A. Homer

B. Vergil

C. Hesiod

D. Ovid

35. The ax and rods which symbolize Roman authority are called:

A. lictores

B. fasces

C. imperium

D. triumph