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Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, on Latin vocabulary and syntax, Caesar's Gallic War and Vergil's Aeneid as read in AP Latin through 2024–25, hexameter scansion and figures of speech.

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Practice deck · part of AP Latin · written against: College Board AP Latin Course and Exam Description: the decks follow the Caesar and Vergil required readings of the CED used through 2024–25; the CED effective fall 2025 reads letters of Pliny the Younger and new Aeneid selections. Updated 2026-10-10.

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  1. In the sentence Helvētiī omnia impedīmenta in ūnum locum contulērunt, the word impedīmenta means:

    A) fortifications
    B) obstacles
    C) hostages
    D) baggage
    D) baggage

    In the plural, impedīmenta is a baggage train, something that can be gathered in one place. The general sense 'hindrance' does not fit what the Helvetii are collecting.
    Vocabulary › Nouns
  2. Ponte rescissō, Helvētiī flūmen trānsīre nōn poterant. Which translation is best?

    A) The bridge was being destroyed so that the Helvetii could not cross the river.
    B) The Helvetii, destroying the bridge, were unable to cross the river.
    C) Since the bridge had been destroyed, the Helvetii could not cross the river.
    D) Having destroyed the bridge, the Helvetii could not cross the river.
    C) Since the bridge had been destroyed, the Helvetii could not cross the river.

    Ponte rescissō is an ablative absolute with a perfect passive participle: 'the bridge having been destroyed,' before the main action and here giving its cause. Nothing names the destroyers, and the Helvetii would not wreck a bridge they meant to cross.
    Grammar › Participles and Ablative Absolute
  3. The great Gallic revolt of 52 BC, led by the Arvernian noble Vercingetorix, ended when he surrendered to Caesar after a siege at:

    A) Bibracte
    B) Genava
    C) Gergovia
    D) Alesia
    D) Alesia

    Vercingetorix united much of Gaul in 52 BC but was besieged at Alesia and surrendered; Caesar narrates it in Book 7. Genava (Geneva) is where Caesar blocked the Helvetii in Book 1.
    Caesar › Life and Career
  4. Books 1–6 of the Aeneid are often called its 'Odyssean' half because they:

    A) describe the war in Italy against Turnus and the Latins
    B) retell the fall of Troy entirely from the Greek point of view
    C) are narrated to the Trojans by Odysseus in the first person
    D) follow Aeneas's wanderings, ending with a journey to the Underworld
    D) follow Aeneas's wanderings, ending with a journey to the Underworld

    Like the Odyssey, Books 1–6 follow a hero's wanderings, including a visit to the dead. Books 7–12, the war in Italy against Turnus, form the 'Iliadic' half.
    Vergil › Poet and Poem
  5. Using D for a dactyl and S for a spondee, which pattern correctly scans Īnfandum, rēgīna, iubēs renovāre dolōrem (Aeneid 2.3)?

    A) S S D D D S
    B) D S D D D S
    C) S S D S D S
    D) S D S D D S
    A) S S D D D S

    Īn-fan | dum rē | gī-na iu | bēs re-no | vā-re do | lō-rem: two spondees, then three dactyls. The i of iubēs is a consonant, so the short -na before it is not elided.
    Meter
  6. The Trojans explore the empty Greek camp: hīc Dolopum manus, hīc saevus tendēbat Achillēs (Aeneid 2.29). Which figure does the repeated hīc create?

    A) chiasmus
    B) litotes
    C) anaphora
    D) hendiadys
    C) anaphora

    Anaphora repeats a word at the start of successive phrases: 'here the Dolopian band, here fierce Achilles pitched his tent,' as the Trojans point out place after place.
    Figures

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  • Topic coverage follows the College Board AP Latin Course and Exam Description in use through 2024–25 (required Caesar and Vergil readings, vocabulary, grammar and analysis skills), used as an outline only (no text copied). The CED effective fall 2025 replaces Caesar with letters of Pliny the Younger in its required readings and changes the Vergil selections; Gallic War 1.1–7 and 6.13–20 remain on its list of suggested teacher's-choice texts.
  • Latin quoted from public-domain texts: Caesar, De Bello Gallico, and Vergil, Aeneid, cited by book and chapter or line; Latin sentences given without a citation were written for this deck. All English translations and paraphrases are original.
  • Forms, meanings and constructions checked against Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879, public domain) and Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (1903, public domain) (reference only; no text copied).

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