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This is the Prose test for 1989. 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 35 questions

1. Prima luce surrexi ut duo milia passuum ante ientaculum _____.

2. Hi sunt aediles qui _____ praesunt.

3. Custos exclusit homines _____ tu salutatum me miseras.

4. I know why tourists spend entire days in Pompeii.

5. Putasne esse more difficult exitium quam initium invenire?

6. Romani sententias de candidatis in _____ aedificiorum saepe scribebant.

7. It would have been exciting to hear the famos orators speaking from the rostra in the forum.

8. Carrum novum emere non possum quod mihi satis _____ non est.

9. Cur putas eum mentem changed?

10. Clamoribus _____, Calpurnia timere incepit.

11. Cum Cicero et Hortensius _____ competitores, inimici tamen non erant.

12. Veritatem let him speak.

13. Res publica _____ liberata est.

14. Eram tardus hodie; _____ pudet.

15. Sunt nonnulli qui _____ potestatem esse cariorem vita.

16. Cicero relates that it was the Tiber "quo omnis iuventus _____ causa venit."

17. Which one of the following expresses a thought completely different from the others?

18. Spartacus erat gladiator _____.

19. Si loqueris Latine saepe, magistra magnopere _____.

20. Romani gallinam piscesque edebant sed praesertim _____ fruebatur.

21. The winged lions with eagles' heads which kept vigil over a legendary pile of gold were:

22. What Latin verb is the root of the English words innocuous, NUISANCE, OBNOXIOUS, and INNOCENT?

23. Who was once a supporter of Cicero but later agreed to his assassination?

24. This statement conveys the sentiments of many Romans toward the end of the Republic: "Omnia venalia Romae."

25. A news service during the early part of the Empire might have issued the bulletin: "Claudius Invades _____ 100 Years After Caesar!"

26. Drusus crossed the _____ River to advance into Germany and as far as the Elbe River.

27. Circe had prophesied that _____ would encounter many perils before reaching Ithaca.

28. It was the duty of the _____ to warn people to stand aside and give way to the consul.

29. The Pantheon was built in commemoration of Octavian's victory at

30. A Roman historian who lived and wrote during the Empire was:

31. The power of veto over almost all resolutions and actions of magistrates belonged to the:

32. Pompey was resolved not to allow _____ to stand for the consulship in 49 B.C. unless he disbanded his army.

33. Cicero defended _____, a poet and teacher, whose records of Roman citizenship had been destroyed by fire.

34. The Romans would have expressed april 21, the legendary date of the founding of Rome, as:

35. Her acerbic tone made him feel uncomfortable.