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A total of 35 questions

1. Roma erat dissimillima other cities in Italia.

A. aliarum urbium

B. aliae urbes

C. aliis urbibus

D. alias urbes

2. When cicero was consul, the state was in great danger.

A. Ciceronem consulem

B. Cicerons consulis

C. Ciceroni consuli

D. Cicerone consule

3. Seeing is believing.

A. Videns

B. Videndus

C. Videre

D. Visus

4. Quis army praeerat?

A. exercitum

B. exercitu

C. exercitui

D. exercitus

5. Who is so ungrateful that he does not THANK Jupiter?

A. gratias agat

B. gratias aget

C. gratias agit

D. gratias ageret

6. "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?"

A. abusing

B. have you abused

C. will you abuse

D. abuse

7. Negotium : otium : : amor : ______

A. honor

B. odium

C. opes

D. opus

8. "quae cum ita sint, Catilina, perge quo coepisti."

A. But if

B. Since these things are so

C. What of the fact that

D. With all things equal

9. Cicero ad eas res _____ delectus est.

A. conficiendas

B. confectas

C. conficere

D. conficitur

10. Licet ut eat.

A. We can go.

B. He is permitted to go.

C. You may go.

D. It is allowed for them to go.

11. _____ ne venisset! (Would that he had not come!)

A. Si

B. Quin

C. Utinam

D. Priusquam

12. Ulysses wanted to stay at home.

A. domi

B. domo

C. domum

D. domus

13. Steven Spielberg has become a very well-KNOWN movie director.

A. notissimum

B. notissimus

C. notissimi

D. notissimorum

14. A CERTAIN scientist has spent many years observing orangutans in Malaysia.

A. aliquis

B. quidam

C. quisque

D. idem

15. Perseus knew where he could find the Medusa.

A. poterat

B. possit

C. potuerit

D. posset

16. Hi libri sunt difficiles to find.

A. invenisse

B. inventa

C. inventu

D. inveniendum

17. They prefer to remain in the country for the summer.

A. mallent

B. malint

C. malunt

D. maluerunt

18. Patria mihi est carior vita mea.

A. to my life

B. for my life

C. than my life

D. of my life

19. The pirates remained many months on the island.

A. multis mensibus

B. multos menses

C. multi menses

D. multorum mensium

20. Let us stay in the forum to hear Cicero speak against Catiline.

A. manemus

B. mansissemus

C. maneamus

D. manebimus

21. Which class of citizens had the right to vote and hold property, but were ineligible to hold office?

A. equites

B. optimates

C. senatores

D. libertini

22. The sella curulis was the:

A. marriage couch

B. chief priest of Jupiter

C. official chair of the highest magistrates

D. dictator's second-in-command

23. Which of the following was not one of Cicero's essays?

A. De Senectute

B. De Amicitia

C. De Officiis

D. De Rerum Natura

24. The Latin phrase passim, often found in an index, means:

A. in the same place

B. here and there

C. the following

D. compare

25. The Romans would have written January 3 as:

A. pridie Kal. Jan.

B. a.d. iii Id. Jan.

C. a.d. iii Kal. Jan.

D. a.d. iii Non. Jan

26. Viz. is the abbreviation for VIDELICET meaning:

A. namely

B. for example

C. see above

D. note well

27. The priestess of Hera who was changed into a heifer to protect her from Hera's jealousy was:

A. Arethusa

B. Iris

C. Callisto

D. Io

28. The penultimate syllable of a word is the:

A. last

B. next to the last

C. third from the last

D. first

29. " … senatus iure optimo vim et manus intulisset." The capitalized words are an example of:

A. chiasmus

B. hendiadys

C. syncope

D. oxymoron

30. The ancient Roman province of Ilyricum is now known as:

A. Yugoslavia

B. Austria

C. Switzerland

D. Portugal

31. The aerarium was the:

A. senate hous

B. law court

C. treasury

D. archives

32. Cicero successfully defended:

A. Catiline

B. Roscius

C. Antony

D. Verres

33. The senator's press release vitiated the reputation of his colleague.

A. debased

B. enhanced

C. challenged

D. protected

34. The purple-bordered garment worn by both young boys and official magistrates was called the toga _____.

A. candida

B. pulla

C. praetexta

D. virilis

35. A SENATUS CONSULTUM was a:

A. decree of martial law

B. decree of the senate

C. chief magistrate of the senate

D. bench on which a senator sat

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