Annual Exam Study: Advanced Prose

Students reading Caesar, Cicero, or similar prose.

Optional advanced track after Year 4. For classes reading real Latin prose.

This practice exam has 40 multiple-choice questions in about 45 minutes: 12 Roman-world questions, 18 language questions, and a 10-question original prose passage.

Question groups: Culture, history, and literature, Language, Reading comprehension.

Practice the Advanced Prose level · Timed practice set

Language

• Subjunctive clauses common in prose: purpose, result, indirect question, cum, fearing, and conditions.
• Ablative absolute, deponents, gerunds, supines, and verbs such as utor and memini.
• Rhetorical devices common in prose, such as anaphora, tricolon, and litotes.
• Derivatives and sayings such as habeas corpus, de facto, and morituri te salutamus.

Roman world

• Lives and works of Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Pliny the Younger, and Tacitus.
• Late Republic and early Empire events, including Pharsalus and Philippi.
• Magistrates, social classes, the army, the calendar, and public religion.