Exploratory Latin

Numbers and body parts

100

number of people in a sextet

a. two

b. five

c. six

d. seven

What is c. six

200

How many oculi do you have?

a. tres

b. duo

c. quattuor

d. unus

What is d. duo - two eyes

300

Roman numeral that equals 500

a. C

b. L

c. M

d. D

What is d. D

400

Quot pedes leo habet?

a. duo

b.tres

c. quattuor

d. unus

What is c. quattuor

500

What is CMLXXXIX in Roman numerals?

a. 989

b.1599

c.578

d.5839

What is a. 989

Mottoes and Commands

100

cave canem means

a. beware of dog

b. buyer beware

c. one from many

d. the end

What is a.

200

Caveat emptor tells you do do this

a. beware of dog

b. seize the day

c. word conquers all things

d. buyer beware

What is d.

300

Ambula ad mensa means

a. sit on the chair

b.write your name

c.open the window

d.walk to the table

What is d.

400

plaude ad infinitum means

a. clap as an example

b. clap while time flies

c. clap until you were sick

d. clap forever

What is d. clap forever

500

If Lucius gave Marcia septem flores and he had tres left how many did he have in the beginning?

a.duo

b. decem

c. octo

d. quinque

What is b. decem

Daily Life

100

Who would wear a bulla?

a. mater

b. pater

c. filia

d. avia

What is c. filia

200

An Avia wears a stola. An infans wears a

a.toga

b.palla

c. stola

d. tunica

What is d. tunica

300

what fruit did the Romans NOT cultivate?

a. apples

b. oranges

c. pears

d. grapes

What is b.

400

The Liberalia was

a. the date at which a boy dedicated his bulla to the household gods

b. the Roman naming day

c. the festival of Juptier

d. a wedding

a.

500

the two items a student needed for writing

a. tabella and stilus

b. cognati and prandium

c. frumentum and mensa

d. ientaculum and cena

a.

animal/nature

100

day is to the sol as night is to

a. arbor

b. mons

c.rivum d. luna

What is d. luna

200

ubi sunt stellae et nubes?

a. caelum

b. flumen

c. mons

d. flos

What is a. caelum

300

Quis dicit "grrrr"

a. mus

b.porcus

c. ursus

d.vacca

What is c. ursus

400

The us state named for its flowers

a. Montana

b. Vermont

c. Pennsylvania

d. Florida

What is d. Florida

500

vacca are herbivourous animals. they eat

a. meat

b. grass

c. flowers

d. stars

What is b. grass

colors/family

100

What color is not on the american flag?

a. albus

b. caeruleus

c. prasinus

d. ruber

What is d. ruber

200

The youngest member of the family is

a. avia

b. infans

c. pater

d. mater

What is b. infans

300

if you mix ruber and flavus you get

a. flammeus

b. purpureus

c. caeruleus

d. prasinus

What is a. flammeus

500

Which of the following would you expect to be caeruleus?

a. arbor

b. caelum

c. herba

d. sol

What is b. caelum