Annual Exam Study: Intermediate

Students reading longer sentences, comparatives, passives, and a short prose passage.

Year 4C. Sentence practice for grade 8.

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

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

Practice the Intermediate level · Timed practice set

Grammar for reading

• All six indicative tenses, active and passive, including participles and present infinitives.
• Comparatives and superlatives, including bonus, magnus, and multus.
• Relative clauses, hic, ille, and reflexives.
• Commands dic, duc, fac, and fer, plus num and nonne.
• Idioms such as iter facere, in animo habere, and memoria tenere.

Words and sayings

• Derivatives such as omniscient, incredulous, benevolent, and introspection.
• Sayings such as caveat emptor, per aspera ad astra, status quo, and ars longa, vita brevis.
• Classroom phrases such as quid novi, surge, and mihi placet.

Roman world

• Seas and rivers: Adriatic, Aegean, Black Sea, Rhine, Po, Nile, and the Rubicon.
• People and events: Augustus, Hannibal, Caesar, Cleopatra, Antony, Spartacus, the Punic Wars, and Vesuvius.
• Heroes and monsters, the underworld, school life, baths, chariot racing, and gladiators.