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This is the Poetry test for 1986. Please get out a number two pencil and step back and punt.

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A total of 34 questions

1. "attack naves, comites!" clamavit dux.

A. Aggredimini

B. Aggredere

C. Aggrediemini

D. Aggrederis

2. "Equo ne credite!" The more common prose construction of these words is:

A. Ne credas

B. Num credere

C. Nolite credere

D. Non credimus

3. Aeneas _____ oblivisci non poterat.

A. uxor prima

B. uxoris primae

C. uxore prima

D. uxori primae

4. Robur, ILEX, QUERCUS, and PINUS are all:

A. flowers

B. trees

C. winds

D. animals

5. "Rusticus urbanum murem mus paupere fertur accepisse cavo…" The best translation of accepisse is:

A. to have welcomed

B. had welcomed

C. to be welcomed

D. have been welcomed

6. "Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me paucis, si ______ di favent, diebus."

A. te

B. tu

C. tibi

D. tui

7. Celsus:altus:: _____: celer.

A. lentus

B. citus

C. fortis

D. piger

8. The Trojans complained about their fate.

A. questi sunt

B. questi erant

C. questi erunt

D. questi essent

9. Aeneas did not know where the sibyl intended to go.

A. itura est

B. itura sit

C. itura esset

D. itura erat

10. The wall extended sixteen miles through the province.

A. milia passuum

B. milium passuum

C. milibus passuum

D. mille passus

11. Si Anna ad Italiam naviget, Aenean inveniat.

A. should sail

B. had sailed

C. will sail

D. were sailing

12. Is the senator's summer villa at capua or brundisium?

A. Capuae aut Brundisio

B. Capua aut Brundisio

C. Capuae aut Brundisi

D. Capuam aut Brundisium

13. Luna erat tam clara ut clavem amissam facile we found.

A. inveniremus

B. inveniamus

C. invenerimus

D. invenissemus

14. Gens Graeca erat asperrima studio bello.

A. since the pursuit

B. in the pursuit

C. of the pursuit

D. without the pursuit

15. Boves ____ vescuntur.

A. frumentum

B. frumenta

C. frumento

D. frumenti

16. The Sirens tried to lure Ulysses and his men by singing.

A. canendo

B. canenti

C. canunt

D. cecini

17. Juno sent Iris, her messenger, to release Dido's spirit.

A. nuntiam

B. nuntiae

C. nuntia

D. nuntiis

18. The Trojans knew that the king was their friend.

A. amico

B. amici

C. amicus

D. amicum

19. Utinam veritatem _____!

A. dixeram

B. dico

C. dixissem

D. dicebam

20. When Roman travellers sailed from Italy to Greece, ships deparated from Brundisium and crossed the _______Sea.

A. Aegean

B. Black

C. Tyrrhenian

D. Adriatic

21. In the prefatory chapters, the author spoke to the reader about his goals. The Latin root of the word prefatory is:

A. favere

B. fari

C. ferre

D. fieri

22. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides wrote Greek:

A. comedy

B. tragedy

C. history

D. epic

23. The augurs in ancient Rome were best known for:

A. lending money

B. racing chariots

C. curing sick people

D. interpreting the flight pattern of birds

24. The car was advertised as having all the amenities. amenities comes from the Latin word:

A. amor

B. amoenus

C. amicus

D. amentia

25. Through Iulus, son of Aeneas, Julius Caesar traced his ancestry to the goddess:

A. Diana

B. Venus

C. Minerva

D. Ceres

26. Confarreatio, COEMPTIO, and USUS are all ____ rites.

A. birth

B. marriage

C. coming of age

D. funeral

27. The victory of Octavian over his rival Antony in 31 B.C. took place near Actium, which is on the coast of:

A. Greece

B. Italy

C. Egypt

D. Gaul

28. Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian, Roman emperors who ruled between 69-96 A.D. were members of the ____ dynasty.

A. Roscian

B. Flavian

C. Flaminian

D. Julian

29. The goddess of discord, ________, threw the golden apple into the midst of the guests at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.

A. Eris

B. Eros

C. Iris

D. Isis

30. The line "ut fugiunt aquilas timidissima turba columbae" contains ____ dactyls.

A. two

B. three

C. four

D. five

31. The abbreviation q.v. means

A. that which had tobe proved

B. vice versa

C. which see

D. in the work previously cited

32. The name of _____ is a byword for marital fidelity and patience.

A. Phaedra

B. Pasiphae

C. Pallas

D. Penelope

33. The chemical symbol Fe is derived from the Latin word:

A. ferus

B. fero

C. ferrum

D. frumentum

34. Hebrus, Lethe, Pactolus, et Phlegethon sunt:

A. montes

B. urbes

C. flumina

D. imperatores