Annual Exam Study: Beginning

Students who can read unconnected Latin sentences and one short passage.

Year 4B. Sentence practice for grade 7.

A full Beginning practice exam has 40 multiple-choice questions in about 45 minutes: 12 Roman-world questions, 18 language questions, and 10 reading questions, the same shape as the Introduction exam.

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

Practice the Beginning level · Timed practice set

Nouns and pronouns

• Everything from Introduction, plus direct address (the vocative) and simple uses of the ablative for means and manner.
• is, ea, id as he, she, it, and the nominative of the relative pronoun qui, quae, quod for reading.
• Numbers through one hundred and Roman numerals through C.

Verbs

• Present, imperfect, and perfect active, including sum and possum.
• Commands, including noli and nolite for negative commands.
• Idioms such as gratias agere, prima luce, and brevi tempore.

Words and sayings

• Body words such as caput, oculus, manus, and pes.
• Derivatives such as sedentary, sorority, puerile, and quadruped.
• Sayings and abbreviations such as veni, vidi, vici, summa cum laude, per annum, i.e., e.g., A.D., and S.P.Q.R.
• Classroom Latin such as gratias tibi ago, adsum, and sol lucet.

Roman world

• Italy and the wider map: Ostia, Pompeii, Vesuvius, Brundisium, the Apennines, Gaul, Carthage, Athens, Troy, and Asia Minor.
• Monarchy, Republic, and Empire, with Romulus, Tarquinius Superbus, Horatius, and Cincinnatus.
• Stories such as Echo and Narcissus, Arachne and Minerva, Midas, and Aeneas at Troy.
• The city and daily life: Forum, Palatine, Via Appia, Pantheon, baths, circus, amphitheater, triclinium, and insulae.