LNM1 Chapter 7 Test

Match the Latin noun form with its English meaning.

Catullus lived in the first century bce.

Clodia and Lesbia are probably the same person.

We have fewer than ten of Catullus’s poems in existence today.

Like Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid also wrote elegiac poetry.

The existence of a “secret lover” is a theme that is carried through much of the later Middle Ages poetry.

Catullus compares his girlfriend to a sparrow.

Catullus is jealous of the sparrow.

The phrase ūnīus assis tells just how much Catullus values the opinions of old men.

A reader of Catullus’s poetry can hear the chirping of the sparrow in the Latin word pīpiat.

Catullus urges his girlfriend to love him because, ultimately, life is short.

One can determine the declension of a noun by looking at the ____________ case, singular.

An adjective agrees with its noun in gender, ____________, and case, but not necessarily in declension.

A construction which begins with a “head verb” or a verb of cognition and is followed by an infinitive is called an ____________.

The English word ____________ is often implied in the above construction, although it is not expressed in the Latin.

In this construction, the subject is not in the nominative case, but in the ____________ case.

A Latin word that can mean “himself,” “herself,” or “themselves” is ____________.

The words “himself,” “herself,” and “themselves” are known in English as ____________ pronouns because they reflect on the subject.

An infinitive does not have the ____________ of a regular Latin verb.

The ____________ of a third declension noun must be learned with the meaning of each new noun of this type.

What is the translation of the famous quotation “Ōdī et amō”?

Who is the author of the quotation “Ōdī et amō”?

The author of the quotation “Ōdī et amō” is describing his feelings about

All of the following wrote love poetry EXCEPT

What kind of bird does the girlfriend of the poet have?

How does the poet feel about the girl’s bird?

The girl allows the bird to bite her

Identify the case and number of pācis.

Identify the case and number of sorōrī.

What third declension ending is the same as the nominative plural?

What case is used for the object of invideō?

We ought to love peace more than war.