Download Latin I Final Exam Study Guide (Final Exam is 20% of Course Grade

Latin I Final Exam Study Guide
(Final Exam is 20% of Course Grade)
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LISTENING SECTION (20 questions - multiple choice)
o Deī et Deae: Roman & Greek names, powers, and symbols
o Numerī: I, V, X, L, C, D, M
o Buildings and vehicles in the city (see the "Urbs Antiqua" handout)
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CULTURE SECTION (19 questions - multiple choice)
o Linguistic History
 What are the 5 Romance languages which derive from Latin?
 From which Proto-Indo-European dialects do Latin and English derive?
 What two major historical events/periods account for the fact that over 50% of English
vocabulary is derived from Latin?
o Culture
 clothing: toga praetexta, toga virilis, tunica, stola, palla . . .
 travel: raeda, raedarius, cisium, tabellarius, plaustrum . . .
 housing: villa, domus, insula
o History
 The Wedding of Peleus & Thetis, Trojan War, Journey of Aeneas to Italy
 Monarchy, Republic, Principate
 KEY DATES: 1184 B.C., 753 B.C., 44 B.C., 31 B.C.
 KEY PEOPLE: Gods, Aeneas, Romulus, Tarquinius Superbus, Iulius Caesar, Octavian
(later named Augustus), Marc Antony, Cleopatra, Vergil
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WRITING SECTION A (15 questions - multiple choice)
o Regular & Irregular Verbs in the perfect, future, pluperfect, and future perfect tenses
 *You must memorize the principal parts of the verbs in your vocabulary lists!*
o Dative Case
o Verbs that take dative objects
 appropinquo, -are, -avī, -atus
 occurro, occurrere, occurrī, occursurus
o 3rd declension adjectives
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WRITING SECTION B (Noun charts and Verb Forms)
o You will be given two nouns to decline. They will be from any of the following declensions:
 1st, 2nd Masculine, 2nd Neuter, 3rd Masc/Fem, 3rd Neuter, 3rd Masc/Fem i-stem
o You will be given one verb to conjugate in all 6 tenses for only one person & number
 e.g. "Conjugate mitto, mittere, misī, missus in the 1st person singular"
 You must also write the positive and negative imperatives for this verb, in the singular
and in the plural with their corresponding English meanings
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READING SECTION (Latin-to-English translation)
o Translate one passage (fewer than 10 lines) from Latin into literal English which best
demonstrates your understanding of the Latin vocabulary and grammar. Keep in mind that the
English you write as a translation may not always sound like the colloquial English we use
today.
o *** Review vocabulary from chapters 1-24 and focus on the most recent unit, chapters 22-24
o Answer 7 grammatical questions about the passage
 Identify verb tense
 Identify noun case and its usage
 e.g. dative indirect object vs. dative object of a compound verb
Identify a grammatical construction
 Accusative of Place to Which; Ablative of Place Where; Place From Which;
Time When or Within Which; Accompaniment; Means/Instrument; Manner
GENERAL GRAMMAR CONCEPTS ON THE TEST
o *Recognize noun endings' declensions and cases: SPIDEY!
o Pronouns (ego, tu, nos, vos) associated with the verb personal endings
o Verb Conjugations 1, 2, 3, 3io, 4; Irregular Verbs: sum, esse; possum, posse; ferro, ferre; volo,
velle; nolo nolle; eo, īre
 All 6 tenses: present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect
 Positive & Negative Imperatives (Commands) in the singular and plural
o Adjective-Noun agreement
 Gender: Masc/Fem/Neut; Number: Sing / Pl; Case: Nom, Gen, Dat, Acc, Abl, Voc
 1st & 2nd declension adjectives vs. 3rd declension adjectives
o Prepositions and the noun cases that follow them
 in, sub, prope, ad, per, ē/ex, ā/ab, de, apud, cum, et cetera
 cum as a preposition meaning "with" vs. cum as a conjunction meaning "when"
o Grammatical Terminology
 Accusative of Place to Which
 Ablative of Place Where; Place From Which; Time When or Within Which;
Accompaniment; Means/Instrument; Manner
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