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2011 GJCL Literature Exam

Fill in the first 4 blanks of the scantron sheet with your own 4-digit-code, and then the next 4 blocks with the 4-digit code for this exam (1005). Fill in completely the space on the answer sheet corresponding to the correct answer for each question. Do not write on the exam itself.

1. Which of the following judicial speeches was not written by ? a. Pro Roscio b. Pro Milone c. In Verrem d. In Mithridatem 2. Which of the following was not written by Statius? a. Thebaid b. Herculeid c. Achilleid d. Silvae 3. Which of the following writers was not primarily an elegiac poet? a. Gallus b. c. d. 4. Which of the following authors wrote a Latin epic? a. Cincius Alimentus b. Silius Italicus c. Ammianus Marcellinus d. Varro 5. What is the name of Aeneas’ son in Vergil’s Aeneid? a. Ascanius b. Palinurus c. Anchises d. Turnus 6. In what book of Vergil’s Aeneid does Aeneas visit the Underworld? a. 3 b. 5 c. 6 d. 8 7. In what book of Vergil’s Aeneid does Aeneas encounter the Cyclops? a. 3 b. 5 c. 6 d. 8 8. In what book of Vergil’s Aeneid does Evander show Aeneas around ancient ? a. 3 b. 5 c. 6 d. 8 9. What was ’ primary literary genre? a. rhetoric b. history c. poetry d. satire 10. What was ’s primary literary genre? a. rhetoric b. history c. poetry d. satire 11. What was ’s primary literary genre? a. rhetoric b. history c. poetry d. satire 12. What was Propertius’ primary literary genre? a. rhetoric b. history c. poetry d. satire 13. What was ’ primary literary genre? a. rhetoric b. history c. poetry d. satire 14. Which of the following did not write satire? a. b. c. Lucilius d. Juvenal 15. Which of the following wrote a technical treatise on architecture? a. Quintilian b. c. Frontinus d. Apicius 16. Which of the following wrote a technical treatise on the education of an orator? a. Quintilian b. Vitruvius c. Frontinus d. Apicius 17. Which of the following wrote a technical treatise on cooking? a. Quintilian b. Vitruvius c. Frontinus d. Apicius 18. Which of the following wrote a technical treatise on aqueducts? a. Quintilian b. Vitruvius c. Frontinus d. Apicius 19. Which of the following writers did not write a Latin epic? a. Livius Andronicus b. c. Naevius d. Pacuvius 20. Which of the following genres did Seneca the Younger not write? a. Satire b. Epigrams c. Comedy d. Tragedy 21. Which did Horace not write? a. Orations b. Odes c. Epodes d. Epistles 22. Who was Aeneas’ helmsman in Vergil’s Aeneid? a. Palinurus b. Pallas c. Turnus d. Camilla 23. Which province did Jugurtha rule as client king in ’s Bellum Jugurthae? a. Egypt b. Armenia c. Numidia d. Parthia 24. Which of the following genres did Ennius write? a. tragedy b. comedy c. both d. neither 25. Which of the following genres did write? a. tragedy b. comedy c. both d. neither 26. Which of the following genres did Caecilius Statius write? a. tragedy b. comedy c. both d. neither 27. Which of the following genres did write? a. tragedy b. comedy c. both d. neither 28. Which of the following genres did Accius write? a. tragedy b. comedy c. both d. neither 29. Which of the following genres did Pacuvius write? a. tragedy b. comedy c. both d. neither 30. Which genre did Quintilian claim the Romans invented? a. tragedy b. comedy c. history d. satire 31. Which was not a work of Marcus Porcius Cato ()? a. Origines b. De Inventione c. De Agri Cultura d. Carmen de Moribus 32. Which of the following was not one of the poetic group called the Neoterics? a. Calvus b. Cinna c. Sempronius Asellio d. Furius Bibaculus 33. What was the name of the woman Catullus praises and criticizes in his love poetry? a. Corinna b. Cynthia c. Delia d. Lesbia 34. What was the name of the woman Propertius praises and criticizes in his love poetry? a. Corinna b. Cynthia c. Delia d. Lesbia 35. What was the name of the woman Tibullus praises and criticizes in his love poetry? a. Corinna b. Cynthia c. Delia d. Lesbia 36. What was the name of the woman Ovid praises and criticizes in his love poetry? a. Corinna b. Cynthia c. Delia d. Lesbia 37. Which was not a defense speech of Cicero? a. Pro Roscio b. Pro Metello c. Pro Sestio d. Pro Milone 38. Which was not a defense speech of Cicero? a. Pro Murena b. Pro Caelio c. Pro Archia d. Pro Licinio 39. Which of these was most famous for his short, witty epigrams? a. b. c. Tacitus d. Valerius Flaccus 40. Which of the following authors wrote biographies on the Julio-Claudian and Flavian emperors? a. Nepos b. c. Pliny the Younger d. 41. Which of the following authors wrote an encyclopedia entitled Natural History? a. Quintillian b. Pliny the Elder c. Pliny the Younger d. Aulus Gellius 42. Which author wrote a series of letters to his friend Atticus? a. Cicero b. Pliny the Elder c. Pliny the Younger d. Seneca 43. Which author wrote a series of letters to the emperor ? a. Cicero b. Pliny the Elder c. Pliny the Younger d. Seneca 44. Which author wrote a series of letters to the historian Tacitus? a. Cicero b. Pliny the Elder c. Pliny the Younger d. Seneca 45. Which of the following was not a typical character in a Roman comedy? a. the braggart soldier b. a foolish slave c. a parasite d. the young lover 46. Which was not a rhetorical work of Cicero? a. Institutio Oratoria b. De Inventione c. Brutus d. De Oratore 47. Which was not a philosophical work of Cicero? a. De Officiis b. Tusculan Disputations c. De Amicitia d. Epistulae Morales 48. What was the genre of Cornelius Nepos? a. history b. biography c. comedy d. rhetoric 49. Which was not a work of Ovid? a. Metamorphoses b. Heroides c. Eclogues d. Remedia Amoris 50. What was the philosophical creed of Lucretius? a. Epicureanism b. Stoicism c. Cynicism d. Pythagoreanism 2011 LATIN LIT

1. D 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. A 6. C 7. A 8. D 9. B 10. A 11. D 12. C 13. C 14. B 15. B 16. A 17. D 18. C 19. D 20. B 21. A 22. A 23. C 24. C 25. B 26. B 27. B 28. A 29. A 30. D 31. B 32. C 33. D 34. B 35. C 36. A 37. B 38. D 39. A 40. D 41. B 42. A 43. C 44. C 45. B 46. A 47. D 48. B 49. C 50. A