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This is the Poetry test for 1979. Please get out a number two pencil and step back and punt.

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A total of 35 questions

1. Which is an antonym for albus?

A. canis

B. umidus

C. dirus

D. niger

2. They returned to save their grandfather's throne.

A. servari

B. ut servarent

C. ut servent

D. servavisse

3. The English word which is not a derivative of nascor is:

A. nasal

B. nascent

C. Renaissance

D. prenatal

4. _____________ nobis defenda erat. (We had to defend the city.)

A. Urbs

B. Urbi

C. Urbem

D. Urbe

5. We knew that their homes had been abandoned.

A. reliquisse

B. relinquere

C. relinqui

D. relictas esse

6. Eis ut ______ persuadet.

A. irent

B. eant

C. eunt

D. ire

7. Vergil related what Aeneas' fate was.

A. esset

B. sit

C. fuerit

D. erat

8. In litore Carthagiis erant many sailors.

A. multos nautas

B. multi nautae

C. multorum nautarum

D. multis nautis

9. Mei amici in Hispania for three months manebant.

A. post tres menses

B. tribus mensibus

C. trium mensium

D. tres menses

10. Now that we are seniors, we are working more diligently.

A. diligenter

B. diligentius

C. diligentior

D. dilingentissime

11. Haec locutus est means

A. Here is the place

B. The locusts are here

C. He spoke these words

D. He placed it

12. "odi profanum vulgus et arceo."

A. I choose

B. I forget

C. I hate

D. I need

13. Undeviginti et quadraginta fiunt:

A. XXXIII

B. LIX

C. XXV

D. LXI

14. Which word does not mean river?

A. fluvius

B. flumen

C. amnis

D. flamen

15. "Timeo Danaos et dona bearing."

A. ferendos

B. ferentes

C. ferre

D. ferte

16. He is about to write a song for Linda Ronstadt.

A. scriptus

B. scribens

C. scribendus

D. scripturus

17. Let'S NOT WATCH so much television.

A. non spectare

B. nolite spectare

C. ne spectemus

D. non spectamus

18. Sidereal means

A. settled

B. terrestrial

C. starry

D. serious

19. Status quo means:

A. daily

B. without a day appointed

C. to whose advantage

D. the state in which a thing is

20. Which of the following is not a synoym for troiani?

A. Aeneadae

B. Dardani

C. Atridae

D. Teucri

21. The muse whom Vergil invokes in the opening verses of the aeneid is

A. Calliope

B. Erato

C. Clio

D. Polyhymnia

22. A rejected suitor of Queen Dido was:

A. Achates

B. Palinurus

C. Sinon

D. Iarbas

23. Which of the following is not a synonym for the Underworld?

A. Boreas

B. Erebus

C. Orcus

D. Avernus

24. Vergil wrote during the ______ age of Latin Literature.

A. Golden

B. Silver

C. Bronze

D. Iron

25. The architecture of the Pantheon is distinguished by the

A. rounded arch

B. dome

C. spire

D. peristyle

26. The archaeologist who discovered ancient Troy was:

A. Lord Elgin

B. Robert Graves

C. Sir Arthur Evans

D. Heinrich Schliemann

27. The Augustan poet, author of amores, who was exiled to Tomi was:

A. Ovid

B. Martial

C. Ennius

D. Menander

28. "Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus" was written by

A. Vergil

B. Catullus

C. Homer

D. Cicero

29. The usual meter of classical epic poetry is:

A. iambi tetrameter

B. iambic pentameter

C. dactylic hexameter

D. Sapphic

30. The quotation "Dux femina facti" refers to:

A. Dido

B. Lavinia

C. Creusa

D. Amata

31. Pridie idus martias:

A. March 15

B. March 1

C. February 28

D. March 14

32. "Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes" is an example of:

A. onomatopoeia

B. personification

C. hendiadys

D. alliteration

33. The ancient Etruscans lived in:

A. Campania

B. Etruria

C. Libya

D. Ethiopia

34. "Ego Gaius, tu Gaia" was said at a Roman

A. bath

B. funeral

C. wedding

D. election

35. Archaeological treasures and artifacts from the city of ___ are being exhibited in America to commemorate a catastrophe which occurred in 79 A..D.

A. Troy

B. Pompeii

C. Alexandria

D. Carthage