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NLE > Prose > 1996

This is the Prose test for 1996. 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 32 questions

1. Cives animalia in Colosseo saepe viderant.

A. will see

B. used to see

C. had seen

D. saw

2. Discipuli suam magistram de fabula antiqua rogaverunt.

A. your

B. her

C. their

D. our

3. Rex filiam maxime amabat.

A. much

B. very much

C. more

D. very large

4. Templum _____ Augustus aedificavit pulcherrimum erat.

A. quo

B. quod

C. cui

D. cuius

5. Noster amicus ad portum cras perveniet.

A. arrives

B. has arrived

C. was arriving

D. will arrive

6. Orpheus pulchre cantare potuisse dicitur.

A. will be able

B. to have been able

C. was able

D. to be able

7. lex : legum : : impetus : _____

A. impetu

B. impetui

C. impetibus

D. impetuum

8. Let the consul beware of certain unscrupulous citizens.

A. Consul caveat

B. Consulem cave

C. Consul cavet

D. Consul cavebit

9. Orator civibus leniter dixit.

A. softest

B. soft

C. softly

D. too softly

10. Viator Romam iter fecit ut ad Siciliam NAVIGARET.

A. as he must sail

B. while sailing

C. since he sailed

D. in order to sail

11. The king asks the old man where he hid the money.

A. celat

B. celaverit

C. celavisset

D. celavit

12. Magister illi chartam dedit.

A. to him

B. by him

C. from him

D. with him

13. Venator animalia fugientia trans campos sequebatur.

A. to flee

B. about to flee

C. fleeing

D. having fled

14. Venus erat pulchrior iunone.

A. by Juno

B. from Juno

C. to Juno

D. than Juno

15. Cicero dicit se patriam amare.

A. loves

B. loved

C. will love

D. had loved

16. Infans erat carissimus matri.

A. of (his) mother

B. to (his) mother

C. by (his) mother

D. from (his) mother

17. Si piscem ex flumine cepisset eum edisset.

A. he would have eaten

B. he will eat

C. he was eating

D. he had eaten

18. Omnes libri hodie movendi sunt.

A. will be moved

B. are being moved

C. have been moved

D. must be moved

19. Senatores sunt tam laeti de victoria Romana ut ducem LAUDENT.

A. that they must praise

B. that they had praised

C. that they praise

D. that they praised

20. Claudius navem defendere conatus est, sed hostes erant potentiores.

A. will try

B. is trying

C. had tried

D. tried

21. "Quae cum ita sint" an expression often used by Cicero means

A. What about these things

B. Since these things are so

C. Bear with these things

D. There are many such things

22. A Roman would travel from Rome to Brundisium, and then across the Adriatic Sea in order to reach

A. Greece

B. Spain

C. Egypt

D. Britain

23. The established succession of offices which Cicero held on his way to becoming consul was the

A. toga praetexta

B. pedites

C. cursus honorum

D. decemviri

24. The abbreviation et seq. means

A. and others

B. it does not follow

C. and the following

D. in the same place

25. The words confide fiduciary and PERFIDIOUS share a common Latin root having to do with

A. money

B. health

C. trust

D. bravery

26. Chiron, who had the body of a horse and the head of a man and was the teacher of heroes was a

A. gorgon

B. satyr

C. minotaur

D. centaur

27. Cicero gave the First Oration against Catiline on october 21 63 B.C.

A. pridie Non. Oct.

B. a.d. XII Kal. Nov.

C. a.d. VII Id. Oct.

D. Id. Oct.

28. A typical Roman citizen often visited the thermae.

A. baths

B. markets

C. taverns

D. lawcourts

29. The father was incredulous at the girl's tale. He

A. laughed

B. didn't believe it

C. grew angry

D. started to cry

30. What literary device does the quote cum tacent clamant contain?

A. simile

B. oxymoron

C. anaphora

D. metonymy

31. The three old women known as the parcae control

A. the direction of the winds

B. song and memory

C. the Underworld

D. the thread of human destiny

32. What Roman author wrote a letter detailing the eruption of Vesuvius?

A. Cicero

B. Caesar

C. Sallust

D. Pliny