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 2” 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 31 min 28 points0/17 attempted

The statesman simile (I.148–156)

Spondaic and dactylic effect

Enjambement in Vergil

Venus complains to Jupiter

Neptune calms the sea

Juno's motives

Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?

Aeneas disguised in the cloud

Musa, mihi causas memora

Hypallage (transferred epithet)

Epic simile: how to answer on one

Vocative case

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Aeolus and the storm

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Anaphora and asyndeton

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Elision

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Indirect statement (oratio obliqua)

3 pts

Free response

4 pts

Translate the following passage from Vergil's Aeneid: 'Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris / Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit / litora...'