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This is the Prose test for 2006. 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 28 questions

1. Licet ut eamus.

A. We are permitted to go.

B. It is allowed for them to go.

C. He may go.

D. You can go.

2. Cum esses meus amicus, tuas culpas tamen videre poteram.

A. Although

B. However

C. When

D. With

3. Penelope erat tam fidelis ut nemo eam in matrimonium ducere posset.

A. is able

B. will be able

C. had been able

D. was able

4. Si ego essem eorum mater, eos punirem.

A. I punished

B. I had punished

C. I would punish

D. I will have punished

5. Multi ad Curiam venerunt ad senatorem ____.

A. audiendum

B. audiens

C. audivisse

D. audire

6. "loquimini, socii, magna voce," clamavit dux.

A. They are speaking

B. You wil speak

C. Speak

D. To speak

7. Estne Brutus clarior ____ ?

A. Antonius

B. Antoni

C. Antonium

D. Antonio

8. Illo anno erat inopia frumenti romae.

A. Rome

B. in Rome

C. toward Rome

D. from Rome

9. Omnes sciunt filium patri similem esse.

A. of his father

B. with his father

C. to his father

D. for his father

10. ____ mihi, puella, ubi palla mea sit.

A. Dic

B. Dicite

C. Dicere

D. Dicens

11. Hortensius dicere celerius incipit.

A. quickly

B. very quickly

C. as quickly as possible

D. rather quickly

12. Aliqui Romani Athenis studebant.

A. Other

B. Some

C. Those

D. The same

13. Miles ____ utebatur ut signum daret.

A. tubae

B. tubam

C. tubarum

D. tuba (long a)

14. Marcus intellexit cur omnes Fulviam timuissent.

A. are fearing

B. were fearing

C. had feared

D. will fear

15. Apud cives Augustus dignus honore habebatur.

A. Among

B. Before

C. After

D. Outside

16. Ponte destructo, Horatius ad ripam natavit.

A. After the bridge had been destroyed

B. By destroying the bridge

C. When the bridge will be destroyed

D. About to destroy the bridge

17. Fabis cunctando patriam servavit.

A. without delay

B. by delaying

C. for delaying

D. to delay

18. Piratae nautam insequentes eum facile ceperunt.

A. about to pursue

B. having pursued

C. pursued

D. pursuing

19. Identify the figure of speech in the following: nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas.

A. metaphor

B. chiasmus

C. anaphora

D. zeugma

20. The Battle of Actium pitted Octavian against ____.

A. Antony and Cleopatra

B. Brutus and Cassius

C. Pompey and Crasss

D. Sulla and Marius

21. In what Roman province was Carthage located?

A. Gallia

B. Graecia

C. Africa

D. Asia Minor

22. In mythology the three old women who spun, measured, and cut the thread of life represented

A. illness

B. justice

C. joy

D. fate

23. The symbol rx, used with prescriptions to mean "Take," comes from the Latin word

A. Rumpe

B. Recipe

C. Ride

D. Rege

24. The dura mater is the _____ membrane covering the skull.

A. thin

B. tough

C. elongated

D. porous

25. Pridie non. DEC. is

A. December 4th

B. December 12th

C. December 15th

D. December 30th

26. Who were messengers of the gods?

A. Deucalion and Pyrrha

B. Pyramus and Thisbe

C. Iris and Mercury

D. Proserpina and Pluto

27. The augurs in Rome were known for their ability to

A. command the army

B. drive chariots

C. collect money

D. interpret omens

28. Who wrote ab urbe condita, an early history of Rome?

A. Caesar

B. Cicero

C. Tacitus

D. Livy