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This is the Poetry 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. Pandora, fearing danger, tried to stay away from the box.

2. Ignis sacer in templo Vestalibus____ erat. (The Vestal Virgins had to guard the sacred fire in the temple.)

3. Dolor Didonis tantus erat ut mortem _____.

4. Phineas was about to warn Jason about the dangers of the Symplegades.

5. Ruina Troiae erat ____ gratissima.

6. Cum ____ aeger, tamen Vergilius carmen perficere volebat.

7. Minerva misit duos serpentes ____ Laocoontem filiosque necarent.

8. Quis dicit laborem omnia ___?

9. Souls drank from the river Lethe so that they would NOT remember their previous existence.

10. Duo filii, Aeneas et Cupido, ____ erant.

11. Augusto ____, multae viae in Italia munitae sunt.

12. Senectus est ____ (Old age is rather garrulous).

13. We shall delay as long as we can.

14. You would have been unhappy if the fates had not FOUND a way.

15. "…inferretque deos latio." The equivalent prose construction of the underlined word would be written:

16. Romani ____ ad domos illuminandas utebantur.

17. Ludi circenses erant iocosi ____. (The circus games were amusing to watch.)

18. Nemo scit cur Ovidius in exsilium was banished.

19. "Carmina Burana" ____ placent.

20. There were pejorative statements in the book review. Pejorative is derived from a form of the adjective:

21. Which of the following names did Vergil not use in referring to Dido?

22. Whose treacherous words encouraged the Trojans to take the horse inside Troy?

23. Homer and Vergil wrote in the genre that was the province of what muse?

24. "Iudiciuim Paridis spretaeque iniuria formae …" Who was the goddess whose beauty was scorned by Paris?

25. The name Avernus refers to a

26. The Theban Sphinx was vanquished by:

27. Which of the following is not s father/son relationship?

28. Prima facie means:

29. The mythological sculptor whose statue came to life was:

30. "...suadentque cadentia sidera somnos." This is an example of:

31. What is the date 1776 in Roman numerals?

32. "Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt." The number of dactyls in this line is:

33. Ningit, TONAT, PLUIT, and GRANDINAT were used by the Romans to describe:

34. Pelagic refers to:

35. The name of the modern country where the Trojan War was fought is: