Practice Test 6 - AP Latin
15 questions. Answer them in any order, then submit to see your score and every explanation.
- In this passage, Pliny explains that...
- According to the passage, the people's reactions to the catastrophe included...
- Though not a formal simile, the bore's actions—running up (accurrit), seizing (arreptaque manu), and pursuing (assectaretur)—metaphorically cast him in what role?
- In a philosophical discourse echoing Cicero, a speaker argues that citizens intellegunt (understand) justice, recalls that tyrants neglexerunt (neglected) law, insists "*servate fidem!*" (keep faith!), and claims that a state cannot stare (to stand) unless magistrates sint (may be) incorrupt; he adds that virtue manebit (will remain). Based on the passage, how does the verb stare in line IV contribute to the passage's theme?
- The coincidence of a word-end and a foot-end after the fourth foot in this line (after multa) is a specific metrical feature known as...
- In the second clause, ille refers to
- Vergil's depiction of Fama (Rumor) as a swift, monstrous entity that travels through cities is an example of what common epic technique?
- In the sentence, the word utrum means
- In Aeneid 1.4, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram ("because of the savage, unforgetting anger of Juno"), the adjective memorem is striking. Explain how diction (the choice of memorem) contributes to the interpretation of the conflict's persistence.
- The phrase summae pietatis is used to...
- In the following embedded excerpt from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book 1), attend to rhetorical patterning and diction. Latin (with line numbers): 1) Aurea prima sata est aetas, quae vindice nullo ("First was sown the golden age, which with no avenger"); 2) sponte sua, sine lege fidem rectumque colebat ("of its own accord, without law, cultivated trust and what is right"). Explain how alliteration/assonance (e.g., sponte sua, sine) contributes to the interpretation of spontaneous order in the aurea aetas as Ovid presents it.
- In Vergil's Aeneid 12, as Turnus hesitates, Vergil compares him to a wounded lion (12.4-9). Translation (12.4-9): "Like a lion, wounded by hunters, who at last gathers his rage and rises; he shakes his mane and, fearless, stands over his wounds." Context: Turnus prepares to face Aeneas in single combat. Device: simile. What rhetorical effect does the simile in lines 12.4-9 have on the reader's understanding of Turnus' motivation?
- In Bello Gallico 7.89–90, Caesar describes Vercingetorix's surrender in staged detail; what political impact does this scene have for Roman society?
- In the passage, deliciae means
- Based on the passage: «Iūlia dīcit: "Sī omnia ad voluptātem referantur, quid erit iūstum?" Lūcius respondet: "Ratiō, quasi dux, moderētur cupiditātibus; aliter animus, velut equus effrēnātus, praecipitet. Nōn ego negō gaudia; sed, ut sint sēcūra, terminīs teneantur. Itaque sapiēns, cum possit, parcit, et, cum debeat, resistit. Sic fit ut libertās vera nōn in licentiā, sed in imperiō suī sit."» In the context of the passage, what does moderētur imply?