2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of the following works is NOT by Vergil?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Theogeny
  2. Aeneid
  3. Bucolics
  4. Georgics

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  1. Which Roman poet authored the phrase carpe diem?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Vergil
  2. Ovid
  3. Horace
  4. Juvenal

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which author was the first to translate Homer’sOdyssey into Latin?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Livius Andronicus
  2. Gnaeus Naevius
  3. Quintus Ennius
  4. Caecilius Statius

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. What was the theme of the Heroides?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Last words spoken by dying heroes
  2. Fictionalized letters from jilted heroines
  3. Prophecies of heroic fathers for their sons
  4. Instructions for heroines to keep their lovers

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. All of the following Greek authors are recognized as influences onthe writing of Vergil EXCEPT:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Apollonius
  2. Theocritus
  3. Hesiod
  4. Callimachus

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Catullus uses each of the following meters EXCEPT:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Hendecasyllabic
  2. Alcaic
  3. Elegiac Couplet
  4. Dactylic Hexameter

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which author angered the powerful Metelli family and spent time in prison as a result?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Gnaeus Naevius
  2. Marcus Pacuvius
  3. Titus Livius
  4. Annaeus Seneca

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. What term applies to the type of poem exemplified by Catullus 64?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. paraklausithyron
  2. boustrophedon
  3. epyllion
  4. panegyric

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Who wrote the De Amicitia?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Cicero
  2. Horace
  3. Propertius
  4. Juvenal

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of the following terms does NOT correspond to a type of metrical foot?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. anapest
  2. spondee
  3. iamb
  4. caesura

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of these poets originated from Venusia?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Catullus
  2. Vergil
  3. Horace
  4. Ovid

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. ______was banished from Rome to Tomis for his carmen et error.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Naevius
  2. Ovid
  3. Lucan
  4. Juvenal

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of the following deities does NOT make an appearance in Book I of the Aeneid?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Juno
  2. Proserpina
  3. Aeolus
  4. Neptune

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Caelius and Roscius Amerinus are both:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. editors of Vergil
  2. clients of Cicero
  3. patrons of Ovid
  4. enemies of Catullus

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of these works did the poet with the cognōmen Naso write?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Origines
  2. Epodes
  3. Fasti
  4. Apologia

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Horace had his ______confiscated by the Second Triumvirate:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. shield
  2. farm
  3. slaves
  4. poems

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Arguably, the following poems could all be considered didactic EXCEPT:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Ars Amatoria
  2. Georgics
  3. De Rerum Natura
  4. Epistulae Ex Ponto

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The concepts of piētās and fatum are key themes in the:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Metamorphoseon Libri
  2. Aeneid
  3. De Natura Deorum
  4. Bellum Civile

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Who claimed that Cupid laughed at him and stole “a foot”?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Horace
  2. Ovid
  3. Martial
  4. Petronius

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of the following men was addressed by Catullus as a friend in some of his poems?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Mamurra
  2. Gellius
  3. Suffenus
  4. Calvus

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Who wrote a poem about his holding the consulship of the year 63 BC?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Cato
  2. Cicero
  3. Catullus
  4. Caesar

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of the following works of Latin literature is divided into the highest number of books?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Ab Urbe Condita
  2. Comentarii De Bello Gallico
  3. De Viris Illustribus
  4. Medicamina Faciei Feminae

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Servius, Donatus, Plotius, Tucca, and Pollio are all names associated with:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Ennius
  2. Caesar
  3. Vergil
  4. Martial

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Identify the author of the following: Quaere novum vatem, tenerorum mater Amorum! / raditur hic elegis ultima meta meis.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Catullus
  2. Propertius
  3. Tibullus
  4. Ovid

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Identify the author of the following:

exegi monumentum aere perennius

regalique situ pyramidum altius,

quod non imber edax, non Aquilo inpotens

possit diruere aut innumerabilis

annorum series et fuga temporum.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Horace
  2. Ovid
  3. Vergil
  4. Cicero

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Identify the author of the following: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,/ in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Martial
  2. Catullus
  3. Juvenal
  4. Ovid

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Identify the author of the following:

Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur

cornea, quā veris facilis datur exitus umbris;

altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto,

sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Lucretius
  2. Cicero
  3. Vergil
  4. Pliny the Elder

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque

et quantum est hominum venustiorum:

passer mortuus est meae puellae…

The poet is lamenting the death of a beloved pet. Who is the pet’s owner?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Catullus
  2. Venus
  3. Lesbia
  4. Cupid

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

hoc dicens ferrum adverso sub pectore condit

fervidus. Ast illi solvuntur frigore membra

vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras.

The poet describes the final moments between which pair of characters?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Aeneas and Turnus
  2. Cicero and Catiline
  3. Horace and the Boor
  4. Apollo and Daphne

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

…sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi

spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida

aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

The poet is offering advice for the reader to “seize the day.” To whom is this famous advice addressed?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Lesbia
  2. Leuconoe
  3. Chloe
  4. Cynthia

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The Liber Spectaculorum celebrated the opening of the:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Library of Alexandria
  2. Circus Maximus
  3. Theater of Pompey
  4. Flavian Amphitheater

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of these statements about special poetic forms of Latin words is inaccurate?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. curruum becomes currum
  2. mihi becomes mī
  3. trāxisse becomes trāxe
  4. amāvisti becomes amāvēre

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Whose biographies are enjoyed today as they were in ancient times for their inclusion of gossipy and salacious details about their subjects’ personal lives?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Plutarch
  2. Cassius Dio
  3. Suetonius
  4. Donatus

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The first syllable of every standard line of dactylic hexameter will begin with a:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. long syllable
  2. short syllable
  3. syllaba anceps
  4. diphthong

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. In which book of the Aeneid does Vergil paint a detailed picture of the Underworld?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. III
  2. IV
  3. VI
  4. XII

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Ennius said that speaking Latin, Oscan and Greek gave him three:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. tongues
  2. hearts
  3. minds
  4. souls

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The meter used in Latin epic before the incorporation of dactylic hexameter was:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Saturnian
  2. Sapphic Stanza
  3. Iambic Pentameter
  4. Greater Asclepiadean

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Both Ennius and Tacitus:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. committed suicide.
  2. hated Domitian.
  3. wrote Annales.
  4. died of gout.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Who wrote a poem addressed to a fountain at Bandusia?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Catullus
  2. Horace
  3. Vergil
  4. Ovid

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Catullus dedicated his “newly polished booklet of trifles” to Cornelius ______.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Gallus
  2. Fronto
  3. Tacitus
  4. Nepos

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Gaius Lucilius was an early Roman:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. satirist
  2. epic poet
  3. elegist
  4. tragedian

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Another title of Horace’s Epodes is:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Iambi
  2. Ars Poetica
  3. Carmen Saeculare
  4. Sermones

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of the following statements about Plautus is NOT true? He:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. was born in Sarsina, Umbria.
  2. influenced Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors.
  3. imitated the New Comedy of Menander.
  4. first arrived in Rome as a slave.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Cicero’s Brutus is a treatise on the subject of:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. history
  2. oratory
  3. poetry
  4. religion

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Who wrote Menippean Satires and De Linga Latina?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Seneca the Elder
  2. Varro
  3. Quintilian
  4. Pliny the Elder

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The following plays were all authored by Terence EXCEPT:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Rudens
  2. Hecyra
  3. Andria
  4. Eunuchus

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of the following author-genre pairs is accurate?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Pacuvius-tragedy
  2. Plautus-epic
  3. Persius-biography
  4. Petronius-history

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The Satyricon, a 1969 film by Frederico Fellini, is based on the Latin work of:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Juvenal
  2. Apuleius
  3. Petronius
  4. Lactantius

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. What equestrian officer of Caesar’s wrote the eighth book of the Commentaries on the Gallic War?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Aulus Hirtius
  2. Vibius Pansa
  3. Titus Pullo
  4. Lucius Vorenus

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The words lepidus, salsus, and facetiaenotably recur in some form or another in the poetry of:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Ovid
  2. Catullus
  3. Horace
  4. Cicero

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The repetition of a word in various grammatical forms is known as:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. anaphora
  2. enallage
  3. polyptoton
  4. zeugma

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The Phalaecean meter is better known as:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Hendecasyllabic
  2. Choliambic
  3. Adonian
  4. Saturnian

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. ______died during the eruption of Mt.Vesuvius in 79 AD.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Seneca the Younger
  2. Lucius Accius
  3. Pliny the Elder
  4. Sextus Propertius

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of the following extant speechesof Cicero is the earliest?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Pro Quinctio
  2. Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino
  3. In Verrem
  4. In Catilinam

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Who wrote the De Catilinae Coniuratione?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Cicero
  2. Livy
  3. Catiline
  4. Sallust

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Two Roman authors with the nōmen Terentius have the respective cognōmina of:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Afer and Varro
  2. Statius and Varro
  3. After and Nepos
  4. Statius and Nepos

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. What author did Augustus tease for being a “Pompeian” and Asinius Pollio deride for his Patavinitās?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Horace
  2. Cicero
  3. Livy
  4. Vergil

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Cicero wrote the De Officiis for the benefit of his:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. son
  2. daughter
  3. brother
  4. slave

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of these authors did NOT originate from Spain?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Martial
  2. Seneca the Younger
  3. Lucan
  4. Juvenal

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. ______was both the patron and friend of the elegist Tibullus.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Asinius Pollio
  2. Gaius Maecenas
  3. Mesalla Corvinus
  4. Cornelius Fronto

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which Roman emperor was apparently the last scholar of the Etruscan language?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Augustus
  2. Claudius
  3. Vespasian
  4. Hadrian

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of the following is NOT a work of Tacitus?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Germania
  2. Dialogus de Oratoribus
  3. De Agricultura
  4. Historiae

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The De Rerum Natura espouses the philosophy of:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Epicureanism
  2. Stoicism
  3. Hedonism
  4. Cynicism

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The De Architectura was written by:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Manlius
  2. Apicius
  3. Lucretius
  4. Vitruvius

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Who wrote the hexameter epic Punica in seventeen books?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Annaeus Lucanus
  2. Silius Italicus
  3. Coelius Antipater
  4. Licinius Macer

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Valerius Flaccus wrote the Argonautica, modeled after the Greek original of:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Apollonius
  2. Hesiod
  3. Apollodorus
  4. Herodotus

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. ______wrote the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Augustine
  2. Josephus
  3. Ambrose
  4. Jerome

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Trimalchio and Giton are two of the more important characters featured in the work of:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Petronius
  2. Plautus
  3. Terence
  4. Apuleius

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Who wrote the tragedy Hercules Furens?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Lucius Accius
  2. Marcus Pacuvius
  3. Quintus Ennius
  4. Annaeus Seneca

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Who wrote a treatise on the technical disciplines of agriculture entitled De Re Rustica?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Cato Maior
  2. Celsus
  3. Columella
  4. Cassius Dio

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of these is NOT the title of a minor work traditionally attributed to Vergil as part of the Appendix Vergilianae?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Culex
  2. Dirae
  3. Moretum
  4. Ibis

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Whose life achievements are commemorated in the Res Gestae?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Julius Caesar
  2. Augustus
  3. Trajan
  4. Marcus Aurelius

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The term contaminatio refers to the practice of:
  2. transcribing lines from right to left and left to right in turn
  3. blending together elements from two or more literary models
  4. alternating lines of prose with lines of poetry
  5. extracting a line of text by opening the book at random
  1. Based on our knowledge of his poetry, which of these authors would you most likely have seen composing a poem outside the locked door of his (angry) mistress?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Andronicus
  2. Horace
  3. Persius
  4. Tertullian

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. What literary device uses two coordinated nouns instead of a noun and adjective?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. hyperbaton
  2. hendiadys
  3. hysteron proteron
  4. homoeoteleuton

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Whose literary corpus contains a handful of elegies by Lygdamus?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Propertius
  2. Sulpicia
  3. Tibullus
  4. Marrtial

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. An ecphrasis is a:
  2. detailed literary description of a visual work of art.
  3. continuation of a phrase beyond the end of one verse.
  4. phonetic fusion of the syllables of two adjacent words.
  5. suppressing an otherwise necessary element or phrase.
  1. Who served as tutor for the imperial princes Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus and wrote correspondence to both in Latin in Greek for the duration of his life?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Orbilius Plagosus
  2. Tyro
  3. Cornelius Fronto
  4. Posca

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The Fourth “Messianic” Eclogue of Vergil celebrates the return of a Golden Age, while the poem itself dates to the consulship of ______in 40 BC.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Asinius Pollio
  2. Maecenas
  3. Augustus
  4. Marcellus

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. What poet hoped his achievements would bring lasting fame to the city of Sulmo?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Catullus
  2. Horace
  3. Ovid
  4. Vergil

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. ______translated Aesop’s Fables into Latin.

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Phaedrus
  2. Bede
  3. Aulus Gellius
  4. Macrobius

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. The nōmen of the author of the Thebaid is:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Licinius
  2. Papinius
  3. Caecilius
  4. Servilius

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of these authors did NOT write history?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Marcus Manlius
  2. Cornelius Nepos
  3. Coelius Antipater
  4. Minucius Felix

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which of these authors wrote Annals beginning with the sack of Rome by the Gauls?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Ammianus Marcellinus
  2. Claudius Quadrigarius
  3. Publilius Syrus
  4. Cassius Hemina

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Decimus Laberius, a contemporary of Julius Caesar, was known for his:

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. epigrams
  2. satires
  3. mimes
  4. letters

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

Select the best answer to questions 86-100 by applying your knowledge of Latin literature to some analogous,hypothetical scenarios set in modern times.

  1. Which Roman author, if alive today, would take an editorial in the local newspaper in which he decries how the government can get away with whatever it wants by keeping the unquestioning masses satisfied with “(low carb) bread and video games”?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Cato
  2. Persius
  3. Juvenal
  4. Lucretius

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which Roman author, if alive today, would probably make people around him nervous by talking to inanimate objects such as his boat, his house and a legal pad?

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Ovid
  2. Martial
  3. Catullus
  4. Livy

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Which Roman author, if he were blogging today, would be posting about this total loser who totally followed him around all day, trying to become his “BFF”. Like, omg!!!!

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. Tibullus
  2. Suetonius
  3. Horace
  4. Seneca Younger

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2007 VJCL Latin Literature Test

  1. If ancient Roman historians were reporting for the New York Times, which one would get fired for fabricating (the most) people’s quotes in his news stories?

1