Latin Poetry & Aeneid, Books 1–2 unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 25 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 4, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 43 min 39 points0/17 attempted

pius Aeneas

Hypallage (transferred epithet)

Elision

Arma virumque cano

The statesman simile (I.148–156)

Musa, mihi causas memora

Neptune calms the sea

Vocative case

Jupiter's prophecy: imperium sine fine

Anaphora and asyndeton

Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?

Sunt lacrimae rerum

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Spondaic and dactylic effect

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Epic simile: how to answer on one

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Venus complains to Jupiter

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Dido's introduction

3 pts

Free response

15 pts

TRANSLATION: VERGIL (Question 1, 15 points). Aeneas encourages his men. Revocate animos, maestumque timorem mittite: forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum tendimus in Latium; sedes ubi fata quietas ostendunt; illic fas regna resurgere Troiae. Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis. — Aeneid 1.202–207 (Glosses: revoco = recall; maestus = sad; forsan = perhaps; olim = some day; iuvabit = "it will be pleasing"; discrimen = crisis; quietus = quiet; ostendo = show; illic = there; fas = fas est; resurgo = rise again; duro = endure; vosmet = vos; secundus = favorable.) Translate the passage as literally as possible.

Translate the passage as literally as possible.