The HARD Ones and the EASY Ones: 2010 - The National Latin Exam

The HARD Ones and the EASY Ones: 2010
The HARD Ones and the EASY Ones: 2010
These are the questions which proved to be the most challenging and the easiest on each of the levels of
These the 2010 areNational National the questions Latin Exam:
which proved to be the most challenging and the easiest on each of the levels of
the 2010 National Latin Exam:
INTRODUCTION TO LATIN
Language Questions
Hard: 16. Est rīvus in īnsulā et aqua in rīvō est _____. A) bonam B) bonā C) bona D) bonae
(35% knew that C is the correct answer.)
Easy: 14. Duo amīcī in īnsulā habitant. A) The friends B) Good friends C) Many friends D) The two friends
(96% knew that D is the correct answer.)
Other Questions
Hard: 5. Who was the Roman goddess of wisdom who sprang fully-armored from Jupiter’s forehead?
A) Diana B) Venus C) Vesta D) Minerva (60% knew that D is the correct answer.)
Easy: 6. An auditory learner would learn best through A) writing flashcards B) building a model
C) listening to the teacher D) reading outlines (95% knew that C is the correct answer.)
LATIN I
Grammar Questions
Hard: 4. Līberī in _____ cum familiā habitābant. A) urbs B) urbis C) urbem D) urbe
(33% knew that D is the correct answer.)
Easy: 6. Ego in magnā vīllā habitō; ubi tū habitās? A) we B) they C) you D) I
(94% knew that C is the correct answer.)
Other Questions
Hard: 29. Which one of the following was a famous Roman patriot who “left his plow” to save Rome?
A) Horatius B) Romulus C) Cincinnatus D) Tarpeia (48% knew that C is the correct answer.)
Easy: 24. Container, retention, and tenable are all derived from A) tenēre B) timēre C) terrēre D) temptāre
(90% knew that A is the correct answer.)
LATIN II II
Grammar Questions
Hard: 7. Puellae cum sorōribus ad fīnitimum oppidum eunt. A) are going B) will go C) went D) had gone
(32% knew that A is the correct answer.)
Easy: 1. Prōserpina cum Plūtōne tōtum annum nōn manet. A) for the whole year B) in the whole year
C) of the whole year D) after a whole year (84% knew that A is the correct answer.)
Other Questions
Hard: 23. Which Latin motto could well accompany an official warning? A) Ab ovo usque ad mala
B) Dum spiro spero C) Amor omnia vincit D) Verbum sapienti sat est
(28% knew that D is the correct answer.)
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Easy: 25. Who was Odysseus’ wife who waited twenty years for his return from the Trojan War?

Hard: 23. Which Latin motto could well accompany an official warning? A) Ab ovo usque ad mala
B) Hard: Dum 23. spiro Which spero Latin C) Amor motto omnia could well vincit accompany D) Verbum an sapienti official warning? sat est (28% A) knew Ab ovo that usque D is the ad mala correct
B) Dum spiro spero C) Amor omnia vincit D) Verbum sapienti sat est (28% knew that D is the correct
answer.) Dum spiro spero C) Amor omnia vincit D) Verbum sapienti sat est (28% knew that D is the correct
answer.)
LATIN II cont.
answer.)
Easy: 25. Who was Odysseus’ wife who waited twenty years for his return from the Trojan War?
Easy: 25. Who was Odysseus’ wife who waited twenty years for his return from the Trojan War?
A) Easy: Circe 25. B) Who Penelope was Odysseus’ C) Medea wife D) who Eurydic waited (78% twenty knew years that for B his is the return correct from answer.) the Trojan War?
A) Circe B) Penelope C) Medea D) Eurydic (78% knew that B is the correct answer.)
LATIN III
LATIN III
Grammar Questions
Grammar Questions
Hard: 8. Apud nōs omnēs bene cēnant. A) At our house B) On account of us C) Among ours D) For us
Hard: 8. Apud nōs omnēs bene cēnant. A) At our house B) On account of us C) Among ours D) For us
(26% knew 8. Apud that nōs A is omnēs the correct bene answer.) cēnant. A) At our house B) On account of us C) Among ours D) For us
(26% knew that A is the correct answer.)
Easy: 6. Pater fīliīs imperāvit nē ad flūmen īrent. A) The sons told their father to go to the river. B) The father
Easy: 6. Pater fīliīs imperāvit nē ad flūmen īrent. A) The sons told their father to go to the river. B) The father
ordered 6. his Pater sons fīliīs not to imperāvit go to the nē river. ad flūmen C) The īrent. father A) was The not sons commanded told their father to go with to go his to sons the river. to the B) river. The father
ordered his sons not to go to the river. C) The father was not commanded to go with his sons to the river.
D) ordered D) The father his sons did not not to ask go his to the sons river. to leave C) The the river. father (89% was not knew commanded that B is the to go correct with his answer.) sons to the river.
D) The father did not ask his sons to leave the river. (89% knew that B is the correct answer.)
Other Questions
Hard: 20. An ancient Roman discussing conclāmātiō, Other Questions rogus, imāginēs, toga pulla, and laudātiō would most
Hard: 20. An ancient Roman discussing conclāmātiō, rogus, imāginēs, toga pulla, and laudātiō would most
likely Hard: be 20. speaking An ancient of a Roman A) funeral discussing B) wedding conclāmātiō, C) coming rogus, of imāginēs, age ceremony toga pulla, D) birthday and laudātiō would most
likely be speaking of a A) funeral B) wedding C) coming of age ceremony D) birthday
(13% likely knew be speaking that A of is the a A) correct funeral answer.) B) wedding C) coming of age ceremony D) birthday
(13% knew that A is the correct answer.)
Easy: 23. According to its Latin root, agenda means things A) to be remembered B) to find C) to be done
Easy: 23. According to its Latin root, agenda means things A) to be remembered B) to find C) to be done
D) to list 23. (71% According knew that to its C Latin is the root, correct agenda answer.) means things A) to be remembered B) to find C) to be done
D) to list (71% knew that C is the correct answer.)
PROSE III AND IV
PROSE III AND IV IV
Grammar Questions
Grammar Questions
Hard: 8. Semper contrā hostēs _____ ūsus sum. A) clēmentia B) clēmentiae C) clēmentium D) clēmentiā
Hard: 8. Semper contrā hostēs _____ ūsus sum. A) clēmentia B) clēmentiae C) clēmentium D) clēmentiā
(31% knew 8. Semper that D contrā is the correct hostēs _____ answer.) ūsus sum. A) clēmentia B) clēmentiae C) clēmentium D) clēmentiā
(31% knew that D is the correct answer.)
Easy: 10. Mārcus Antōnius in Forō crās ōrātiōnem habēbit. A) will stop the speech B) will give a speech
Easy: 10. Mārcus Antōnius in Forō crās ōrātiōnem habēbit. A) will stop the speech B) will give a speech
C) Easy: will 10. avoid Mārcus the speech Antōnius D) in will Forō hear crās a speech ōrātiōnem (89% habēbit. knew that A) B will is the stop correct the speech answer.) B) will give a speech
C) will avoid the speech D) will hear a speech (89% knew that B is the correct answer.)
Other Questions
Other Questions
Hard: 20. Bithynia, Pontus, and Cilicia were Roman provinces located in A) Hispania B) Africa C) Asia
D)
Hard:
Gallia
20.
(26%
Bithynia,
knew
Pontus,
that C
and
is the
Cilicia
correct
were
answer.)
Roman provinces located in A) Hispania B) Africa C) Asia
D) Gallia (26% knew that C is the correct answer.)
D) Gallia (26% knew that C is the correct answer.)
Easy: 28. What is the term for the mythological creature that is half-man and half-horse? A) satyr B) griffin
C)
Easy:
centaur
28. What
D) triton
is the
(88%
term
knew
for the
that
mythological
C is the correct
creature
answer.)
that is half-man and half-horse? A) satyr B) griffin
C) centaur D) triton (88% knew that C is the correct answer.)
C) centaur D) triton (88% knew that C is the correct answer.)
POETRY III AND IV
POETRY III AND IV
Grammar Questions
Grammar Questions
Hard: 5. Hic ōrātor saepe spērābat mīrificē sē locūtum esse. A) that he was speaking B) that he would speak
C)
Hard:
that
5.
he
Hic
had
ōrātor
spoken
saepe
D) that
spērābat
he was
mīrificē
speaking
sē locūtum
to himself
esse.
(32%
A)
knew
that he
that
was
C
speaking
is the correct
B) that
C) that he had spoken D) that he was speaking to himself (32% knew that C is the correct answer.)
he would speak
answer.)
C) that he had spoken D) that he was speaking to himself (32% knew that C is the correct answer.)
Easy: 11. Cēdāmus Phoebō et meliōra sequāmur. A) better things B) the greatest things C) more things
D)
Easy:
D) the
11.
the most
Cēdāmus
most important
Phoebō
important things
et
things (82%
meliōra
(82% knew
sequāmur.
knew that A is the
A) better
the correct
things
correct answer.)
B) the greatest things C) more things
answer.)
D) the most important things (82% knew that A is the correct answer.)
Other Questions
Hard: 26. Ubinam gentium sunt Bīthynia, Pontus, Other et Phrygia? Questions A) in Eurōpā B) in Galliā C) in Germāniā
D)
Hard:
D) in Asiā
26. Ubinam
Asiā (45% knew
gentium
knew that D
sunt
D is the
Bīthynia,
the correct
Pontus,
correct answer.)
et Phrygia? A) in Eurōpā B) in Galliā C) in Germāniā
answer.)
D) in Asiā (45% knew that D is the correct answer.)
Easy: 20. A ferrous compound contains A) lead B) gold C) silver D) iron
(87%
Easy:
(87% knew
20. A
knew that
ferrous
that D is
compound
is the correct
contains
correct answer.)
A) lead B) gold C) silver D) iron
answer.)
(87% knew that D is the correct answer.)
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