Beta Review Master 1.1a by Septuagint.org

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 32 questions

1. Honestas pretiosior auro est.

A. most preciously

B. preciously

C. very precious

D. more precious

2. Deus carrum trans caelum agens ad terras lucem fert.

A. about to drive

B. driving

C. must be driven

D. driven

3. Augustus multos annos romae habitavit.

A. of Rome

B. to Rome

C. at Rome

D. from Rome

4. Si Theseus Ariadnam amavisset, mansisset.

A. he must stay

B. he may stay

C. he would have stayed

D. he stayed

5. Homines ____ dei amant bene vivunt.

A. quae

B. quos

C. quem

D. cui

6. Dido cives convocavit ut navigarent.

A. as they were sailing

B. that they will sail

C. when they are sailing

D. so that they might sail

7. Erant Iunoni septem pulcherrimae nymphae.

A. Juno had seven very beautiful nymphs

B. Juno was more beautiful than seven nymphs

C. The nymphs are seven times more beautiful than Juno

D. Juno was one of seven very beautiful nymps

8. Apollo Cassandram eum amaturam esse sperat.

A. had loved

B. was loved

C. loves

D. will love

9. Equo in urbem TRACTO, Troiani celebraverunt.

A. From dragging the horse

B. About to drag the horse

C. When the horse had been dragged

D. Dragging the horse

10. Rex Achillem oravit ut corpus fili redderetur.

A. so that his sons might return the body

B. as the body was being returned to his son

C. that his sons might return with the body

D. that the body of his son be returned

11. Apollo sequi Daphnen quam celerrime constituit.

A. as swiftly as possible

B. who was very swift

C. swifter than she

D. the swiftest of whom

12. Eratne Vergilius maior poeta horatio?

A. as Horace

B. from Horace

C. than Horace

D. by Horace

13. Rogo cur tu me non _____.

A. amas

B. ames

C. amabas

D. amabis

14. Edimus ad vivendum.

A. to live

B. by living

C. when they had lived

D. about to live

15. Agamus gratias deis nam nostros hostes superavimus.

A. We give

B. Let us give

C. We will give

D. We have given

16. Homines se intellegere debent.

A. themselves

B. him

C. it

D. herself

17. Puer, cum parvus sit, fortissimus tamen est.

A. although

B. when

C. since

D. until

18. Ovidius carmina scripsit de arte amandi.

A. to loving

B. by loving

C. for loving

D. of loving

19. Licetne mihi spectare ludos?

A. Do I have to?

B. When can I?

C. Am I permitted?

D. Why can't I?

20. Eratne Aeneas similis _____?

A. patres

B. patri

C. patrem

D. patre

21. In a line of Latin poetry docuerunt might be written in the alternate form.

A. docuere

B. docueris

C. docuisse

D. docuerant

22. Which Latin motto could well have been uttered by the Trojans as their city fell in flames around them?

A. Mens sana in corpore sano

B. Possunt quiz posse videntur

C. Sic transit gloria mundi

D. Festina lente

23. Cui dono novum libellum? The use of LIBELLUM instead of the more conventional LIBRUM indicates

A. the author's feelings toward his little work

B. the number of copies published

C. the expensive papyrus on which the work was published

D. the popularity of the author

24. Scan the first four feet of this dacytylic hexameter line: tum pater aeterno fatur DEVINCTUS AMORE

A. DDDD

B. DSSS

C. SSSS

D. SSDS

25. The professor at the medical school lectured on organ ablation.

A. failure

B. function

C. examination

D. removal

26. These famous siblings of Helen and Clytemnestra became the constellation Gemini.

A. Iphigenia and Orestes

B. Paris and Hectore

C. Menelaus and Agamemnon

D. Castor and Pollux

27. What was the literary name given by Catullus to the woman who inspired his most passionate poems?

A. Lesbia

B. Lydia

C. Claudia

D. Corinna

28. In what general direction did the Phoenicians travel from Tyre and Sidon to found Carthage?

A. north

B. south

C. east

D. west

29. The buzzing of the pestiferous mosquitoes filled the damp night air.

A. extremely noisy

B. plague-bearing

C. very active

D. surprisingly small

30. In this example of ellipsis, dux femina facti, what Latin word has been omitted?

A. cum

B. et

C. quae

D. est

31. The "Circle of Maecenas" was a

A. Roman geometrical theorem

B. group of Augustan writers

C. political party

D. company of Greek actors

32. Which god invented the lyre, which he presented as a gift to his brother Apollo?

A. Vulcan

B. Jupiter

C. Mercury

D. Neptune

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