Practice Test 2 - AP Latin

20 questions. Answer them in any order, then submit to see your score and every explanation.

The word order aureā...sponda (adjective...noun), which frames the verb composuit, has what effect on the imagery?
The form faciat is used in this sentence because it is the verb in...
Vergil introduces Dido's passion with language that emphasizes concealment and internal injury. Read: Latin (Verg. Aen. 4.1–2): At regina gravi iamdudum saucia cura / vulnus alit venis et caeco carpitur igni ("But the queen, long since wounded by grievous care, nourishes the wound in her veins and is consumed by hidden fire"). Explain how alliteration and assonance in gravi… saucia… cura and caeco… carpitur contribute to the interpretation of love as an inward, consuming force rather than an external event, consistent with Roman moral vocabulary of cura and self-control.
Read the excerpt below (Vergil, Aeneid; Augustan epic). Context: Amid crisis, Aeneas models pietas: he steadies others while privately fearing fate. Latin (line numbers): 1. O socii—neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum— 2. O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem. 3. Vos et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantis 4. accestis scopulos, vos et Cyclopea saxa 5. experti: revocate animos, maestumque timorem 6. mittite; forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. 7. Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum 8. tendimus in Latium; sedes ubi fata quietas 9. ostendunt; illic fas regna resurgere Troiae. 10. Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis. 11. Talia voce refert, curisque ingentibus aeger 12. spem vultu simulat, premit altum corde dolorem. Glossary: Scyllaeus = "of Scylla"; rabies = "frenzy"; scopulus = "cliff"; maestus = "sad"; forsan = "perhaps"; discrimen = "crisis"; fas = "divinely permitted"; resurgere = "rise again." In the context of the passage, what does line 12 suggest about Aeneas's leadership?
In this line, subit is best translated as
Anchises's description of Augustus is intended to portray the future emperor's reign as...
Juno's speech reveals her perspective that her inability to stop the Trojans is...
This passage's content and closing illustrate which social function of the Roman literary letter?
The word order in the second clause (praesēns...nocēbit inimīcō) is best described as a chiastic arrangement with the first clause because...
The clause beginning with ut describes the...
In this Vergilian-style epic excerpt (lines 1–8): *hostēs, vīsīs turribus, dubitant intrāre; clāmor tamen surgit.* In lines 1–2, what is the function of the participle vīsīs?
Vergil's description of Laocoön's death uses sound and word order to heighten dread. Read: Latin (Verg. Aen. 2.223–224): horresco referens… / et gemitu ingenti ("I shudder to tell it… and with a huge groan"). Explain how alliteration/assonance and the abrupt diction (horresco) contribute to the interpretation of the narrator's claimed reluctance as a rhetorical strategy that amplifies the horror of Troy's downfall, in keeping with Roman epic conventions of memoria and witness.
In this sentence, the adverb tandem indicates that Hannibal's arrival was...
In the sentence, the verb portatur indicates that the leader...
In Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 4.24–27, what is the purpose of Caesar's direct speech during the landing in Britain?
Pliny's deferential consultation with the emperor on administrative matters exemplifies the functioning of the Principate, a system of government that replaced the Republic and was first established by which of Trajan's predecessors?
In this letter, Pliny the Younger portrays himself as calmly reading history during the eruption of Vesuvius. This scholarly detachment creates an intentional contrast with the character and actions of which other individual, whose fate is described in a companion letter?
Vergil's proem culminates in a teleological statement (Aeneid 1.5–7): dum conderet urbem / inferretque deos Latio ("until he might found a city and bring his gods to Latium"). Consider the paired verbs and the balanced phrasing. Explain how the use of parallelism supports interpretation of Roman foundation as both civic and religious.
In a philosophical discourse modeled on Cicero, the speaker argues: "iustitia non quaeritur in verbis sed in factis; sapientes dicunt leges servandas esse; qui rem publicam neglexerint, poenas dabunt; ut animus regatur, oportet nos *discere*"—lines I–XVI. Based on the passage, which sentence best describes the impact of the verb quaeritur on the overall meaning of the passage?
Refer to the passage: Fābula mythologica—Dum Dīāna per silvās errat, cervus aureō cornū prōsiluit et, quasi dūx, viam monstrāvit. Nymphae stupent; sed dea, quamquam mitis, arcum intendit, nē fera sacra laedātur. Tum repente fōns ipsē, sonō novō, vōcem reddidit: "Nē sequāminī; hic lūcus vetustus est, et Nūmen, quod latet, irāscī potest." Dīāna, audītā monitōne, gradum repressit, ut sociās servāret. What is the contextual meaning of the word Nūmen in the passage?

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