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NLE > Poetry > 1992

This is the Poetry test for 1992. 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 31 questions

1. "Vola in medio caelo, ____!" inquit Daedalus.

A. mei fili

B. mi fili

C. meum filium

D. meo filio

2. Vir talia fatus erat.

A. Such a fate was the man's

B. She spoke such things to the man

C. The man had spoken such things.

D. The man came to such a fate.

3. Iason sine Medeae auxilio aureum vellus invenire non potuit.

A. will not be able

B. cannot

C. could not

D. had not been able

4. Quis of you nomina deorum Romanorum nescit?

A. vestrum

B. vobis

C. vos

D. vestra

5. Liberi fient meliores amici.

A. will make

B. will become

C. let them be made

D. will happen

6. Anni celeriter labuntur.

A. Anna is working quickly.

B. The years are quickly slipping by.

C. The walls quickly collapsed.

D. We worked quickly through the years.

7. Pueri ludebant dum mater domum rediret.

A. as long as

B. while

C. until

D. at the same time as

8. Plebes ei dixerunt se mansuros esse diutius in basilica.

A. had stayed

B. must stay

C. were staying

D. would stay

9. Rex rogavit cur legati had come.

A. veniebant

B. venerant

C. venerint

D. venissent

10. Corpus hominis est multo levius quam corpus equi.

A. very lightly

B. rather light

C. as light

D. much lighter

11. Si adulescentes pericula itineris intellexissent, non profecti essent.

A. they will not set out

B. they didn't set out

C. they would not have set out

D. they are not setting out

12. Hermes ad urbem Troiam nocte advenit deducendi regis priami ad CASTRA HOSTIUM CAUSA.

A. to lead the enemy to King Priam's camp

B. to be brought secretly to King Priam's camp

C. as the leader of King Priam's camp

D. to escort King Priam to the enemy camp

13. Pater filio inquit, "Noli ______ currum celerius, Phaethon!"

A. age

B. agere

C. agis

D. agite

14. Nautae to carthage adire voluerunt.

A. Carthago

B. Carthaginis

C. Carthaginem

D. Carthagine

15. Liberi taurum sitting sub arbore non viderunt.

A. sedens

B. sedentem

C. sedente

D. sedentium

16. Ramus aureus erat auxilio viro.

A. a strong aid

B. an aid for the hero

C. by the help of the hero

D. a helpful hero

17. Tempestas erat tam periculosa ut multi incolae _____.

A. fugiebant

B. fugerent

C. fugerant

D. fugient

18. Scribere versus est mirabile factu.

A. is doing

B. to be done

C. must be done

D. to do

19. Servae panem vinumque in mensa posuere.

A. placed

B. are placing

C. place!

D. to place

20. Multa animalia ____ in silva habitant in montibus non videntur

A. quibus

B. quam

C. quarum

D. quae

21. Carthage, founded by the Phoenician Queen Dido, was located on the:

A. north coast of Africa

B. south coast of Gaul

C. west coast of Greece

D. coast of Illyricum

22. Augustus' rule is considered part of the:

A. Catilinarian conspiracy

B. Roman monarchy

C. First Triumvirate

D. Pax Romana

23. The words desultory, SALIENT, and RESILIENT are derived from

A. salire

B. deesse

C. salutare

D. solere

24. A common literary footnote abbreviation meaning in the same place is:

A. ibid.

B. a.m.

C. d.v.

D. ad lib.

25. The words infant, INEFFABLE, and FATE are derived from the Latin word:

A. fax

B. fari

C. fur

D. ferre

26. Clio, who is associated with history, is one of the nine :

A. graces

B. muses

C. gorgons

D. fates

27. What figure of speech can be found in the line catilina nobile genere fuit, SED INGENIO MALO?

A. anaphora

B. asyndeton

C. hyperbole

D. chiasmus

28. Tacitus: history :: _______ : lyric poetry

A. Vergil

B. Catullus

C. Pliny

D. Cicero

29. Chiron, teacher of Achilles and Jason, was a:

A. minotaur

B. Sibyl

C. centaur

D. satyr

30. The line lumina et obnixus cura sub CORDE PREMEBAT contains how many dactyls?

A. one

B. two

C. three

D. four

31. Avernus, Tartarus, and Erebus are all words for the:

A. mountains

B. sea

C. forest

D. underworld