Practice Test 5 - AP Latin

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

Context (Lyric Poetry): From Catullus, Carmen CI, lines I–XII below. What does the symbolism in the phrase "mutam… cinerem" (lines IX–X) suggest about the speaker's relationship to the dead? *I Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus II advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias, III ut te postremo donarem munere mortis IV et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem, V quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum, VI heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi. VII Nunc tamen interea haec, prisco quae more parentum VIII tradita sunt tristi munere ad inferias, IX accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu, X atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale. XI (—) XII (—)* Brief English summary: After long travel, the poet offers funeral gifts and addresses his brother's silent ashes. Key phrases: "mutam… cinerem" (IV), "tristi munere" (VIII), "ave atque vale" (X).
Refer to the passage. *Dum in viā longā iter faciunt, duo amīcī inter sē colloquuntur. Prīmus, vir laetus, alterum interrogat: "Quō pergimus? Cur tam celeriter ambulāmus?" Alter, vultū trīstī, respondet: "Ad urbem proximam īmus; ibi frāter meus in perīculō est. Eum servāre cupiō, sed solus nōn possum." Prīmus dīcit: "Nōlī dubitāre; tē adiuvābō. Nam amīcitia vera in rēbus difficilibus probātur." Ita ambo pergunt. Interdum in agrīs vident armenta parva pascī, interdum in silvīs audiunt avēs cantāre. Alter tamen, sollicitūdine gravī, saepe suspirat. Prīmus eum hortātur: "Spēs nostra manet; hoc iter licet longum sit, tamen finem habet." Cum ad pontem vēnissent, custōdēs stābant, armīs acūtīs. Custōs dīcit: "Nēmō transit nisi nomen dicit." Prīmus respondit: "Nōs cīvēs sumus; nihil mali facimus." Tum custōs alterum aspexit et quaesīvit: "Quis est iste?" Alter dīcit: "Ego sum frāter hominis captī; ad eum veniō." Custōdēs paulum cōgitāvērunt, deinde eos dīmīsērunt. Postquam pontem trānsiērunt, prīmus dīxit: "Vīdēs? animus firmus multum valet." Ita amīcī, periculō superātō, ad urbem properāvērunt.* Translation: Two friends travel a long road; one seeks to save his brother, and they pass armed guards at a bridge. What is the function of the pronoun iste in the sentence?
This passage alludes to the fratricide that is a key element in the foundation myth of...
Contextus: In Cicerōnis in Catilīnam (Orātiō 1), orātor urget periculum reī pūblicae; interrogātiōnēs et apostrophē Catilīnam premunt. Excerptum (cum macrōnibus): Quō ūsque tandem abūtēre, Catilīna, patientiā nostrā? Quam diū etiam furor iste tuus nōs ēlūdet? Quem ad fīnem sēse effrēnāta iactābit audācia? Nihilne tē nocturnum praesidium Palātī, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populī, nihil concursus bonōrum omnium, nihil hic mūnītissimus habendī senātūs locus, nihil hōrum ōra voltūsque movērunt? Patēre tua cōnsilia nōn sentīs? Constrictam iam hōrum omnium scientiā tenērī coniūrātiōnem tuam nōn vīdēs? Quid proximā, quid superiōre nocte ēgerīs, ubi fuerīs, quōs convocāverīs, quid cōnsilī ceperīs, quem nostrum ignorāre arbitrāris? O tempora, ō mōrēs! Senātus haec intellegit; cōnsul videt; hic tamen vīvit. Based on the passage from Cicero, how do rhetorical questions support interpreting the speech as moral indictment rather than mere information?
What is the main idea Pliny conveys to his wife in this passage?
In this line, the interlocked word order (synchysis) of saevae...Iunonis (A...B) and memorem...iram (A...B) primarily serves to illustrate which concept?
The scene described in the last three lines serves to illustrate the speaker's initial point that...
In Vergil, Aeneid 2.203–224, as Laocoön is compared to a bellowing bull, what rhetorical effect does the simile achieve?
Comparing Laocoön's cry to the bellow of a sacrificial bull that has escaped the altar implies that his death is not only agonizing but also...
In Ovid's Metamorphoses 6.438–452 (Tereus speaks), what is the purpose of his direct speech for characterization?
Cicero's oratory often uses balanced word order to sharpen accusation. Consider this well-known formulation: Latin (Cic. Cat. 1.1): Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? ("How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience?"). Which rhetorical device is used to convey urgency and public pressure through repeated questioning, and how does it support the passage's meaning within the senatorial setting where patientia nostra invokes collective endurance?
Historical Prose (Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1): Read the passage. 1. Apud Helvetios longe nobilissimus fuit et ditissimus Orgetorix. 2. Is M. Messala et M. Pisone consulibus regni cupiditate inductus 3. coniurationem nobilitatis fecit et civitati persuasit 4. ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent: 5. perfacile esse, cum virtute omnibus praestarent, 6. totius Galliae imperio potiri. 7. Id hoc facilius iis persuasit, quod undique loci natura Helvetii continentur: 8. una ex parte flumine Rheno latissimo atque altissimo, 9. altera ex parte monte Iura altissimo, 10. tertia lacu Lemanno et flumine Rhodano. 1. Among the Helvetii, Orgetorix was by far the most noble and richest. 2. In the consulship of Messala and Piso, driven by desire for kingship, 3. he formed a conspiracy of the nobility and persuaded the state 4. to leave their territory with all their forces: 5. that it was very easy, since they surpassed all in valor, 6. to gain control of all Gaul. 7. He persuaded them more easily because the Helvetii are enclosed on all sides by nature: 8. on one side by the Rhine, very wide and deep, 9. on another by the Jura, very high, 10. on a third by Lake Geneva and the Rhône. Context: Caesar explains motives and geography behind the Helvetian migration. Key vocab/grammar: regni cupiditate (abl. cause), persuasit ut + subj., potiri (deponent + abl.). Themes: ambition, leadership, strategic geography. Summarize the explicit meaning of this excerpt.
In curia, senatoribus sedentibus, consul legem recitavit. What is the function of the ablative absolute?
Pliny compares the shape of the volcanic cloud from Vesuvius to a pine tree (pinus). What is the main function of this simile in his account?
The function of the noun gladiis is to express
The introduction of the warrior maiden Camilla at the head of her troops is part of a larger section in Book 7 that is a classic example of which epic convention?
The detail that the man was seen 'pilleatum' yesterday provides a crucial piece of social context. It indicates that he has recently...
Athenodorus's calm, investigative approach to the supernatural, in contrast to the fear of others, reflects the Roman elite's ideal of...

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