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This is the Poetry test for 2004. 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 27 questions

1. Antonius divitior crasso non erat

A. by Crassus

B. than Crassus

C. for Crassus

D. of Crassus

2. Piscator stupefactus Daedalum et Icarum volantes per caelum spectavit.

A. had flown

B. about to fly

C. were being flown

D. flying

3. Catullus multos menses in Bithynia habitabat.

A. in many months

B. by many months

C. of many months

D. for many months

4. Gaius Memmius pecuniam alicui non dedit.

A. of anyone

B. by anyone

C. to anyone

D. from anyone

5. Moriamur et in media arma ruamus.

A. Let us die

B. We are dying

C. We must die

D. We were dying

6. Puer in litore ob timorem navigandi mansit.

A. On account of fear

B. around fear

C. without fear

D. instead of fear

7. Tune, Aeneas, sperasti me relinquere?

A. are you hoping

B. did you hope

C. had you hoped

D. would you hope

8. "quocum," putavit Narcissus, "loqui de meo amore possum?"

A. With whom

B. By whom

C. From whom

D. For whom

9. Sive maneas Sive abeas, nil interest.

A. Not only … but also

B. Either … or

C. Both … and

D. Whether … or

10. Ovidius scripsit viros multas puellas in curvis theatris invenire posse.

A. had been able

B. will be able

C. were able

D. may be able

11. "Mea puella sola dormit," Propertius in limine exclavit. "quam crudelis, ianua, es!"

A. Who is cruel

B. What cruelty

C. Than cruelty

D. How cruel

12. "si quis," Ovidius scripsit, "artem amandi non novit, hoc legat."

A. If the same one

B. If that one

C. If anyone

D. If a certain one

13. Romulus montem Palatinum ascendit ut signum a deis QUAERERET.

A. to seek

B. by seeking

C. who is seeking

D. to be sought

14. Catullus credit multa milia basiorum danda esse.

A. must be given

B. are being given

C. have been given

D. are about to give

15. Antonius Cleopatraque ultimos dies alexandriae egerunt.

A. from Alexandria

B. at Alexandria

C. for Alexandria

D. by Alexandria

16. Nisi mulieres naves incendissent, omnes ad Italiam navigavissent.

A. were sailing

B. would have sailed

C. will sail

D. should sail

17. What is the metrical pattern of the first four feet in Catullus' line nulla potest mulier tantum se DICERE AMATAM?

A. DSDD

B. DDSD

C. DDSS

D. SDSS

18. Which of the following is a logical response to the question visne ad forum mecum adire?

A. Requiescat in pace

B. Minime

C. Plaudite omnes

D. Primus inter pares

19. In times of war, the doors of this god's temple were opened; in peace they were closed.

A. Faunus

B. Saturnus

C. Quirinus

D. Janus

20. In Vergil's Aeneid, when Juno predicts that Rome would come "excidio libyae" she is referring to the destruction of

A. Naples

B. Syracuse

C. Carthage

D. Athens

21. What Roman playwright wrote the comedies aulularia, MOSTELLARIA, and MILES GLORIOSUS?

A. Catullus

B. Plautus

C. Tacitus

D. Seneca

22. What island marks the southern boundary of the Aegean Sea?

A. Sicily

B. Ithaca

C. Sardinia

D. Crete

23. What paranoid emperor, the successor of Augustus, abandoned Rome and ruled from the island of Capri?

A. Tiberius

B. Caligula

C. Claudius

D. Nero

24. What does the motto fama volentem ducunt, NOLENTEM TRAHUNT mean?

A. The meek will inherit the earth.

B. A little learning is a dangerous thing.

C. There is safety in numbers.

D. You might as well accept things as they come.

25. With what mortal girl, whose beauty rivaled that of Venus, did Cupid fall madly in love?

A. Persephone

B. Andromeda

C. Psyche

D. Ariadne

26. Accident, CADENCE, and CASUALTY all come from the Latin verb meaning

A. to bear

B. to fall

C. to leave behind

D. to receive

27. Which Roman magistrate oversaw the counting of Roman citizens, supervised public morality, and revised the roster of the Senate?

A. censor

B. aedile

C. tribune

D. praetor