____D____i. ________________, nōlī uxorem tuam interficere!
a. Salvius
b. Salve
c. Salviō
d. Salvī
You need a vocative case noun because you are addressing Salvius directly. 2 nd
declension words ending in ius change to ī in the vocative
____C____ii. We heard the slave girls singing in the kitchen as they made sandwiches.
a. cantans
b. cantābant
c. cantantēs
d. cantantibus
Singing is a participle describing slave girls, who are feminine plural
____B___iii. non decorum est ________________ cubiculum parāre.
a. Domitilla
b. Domitillae
c. Domitillam
d. Domitillā
Impersonal verb phrases like “it is not proper” take a dative of the person
___D_____iv. Quintus, who had been in Egypt for many months, came to Britain.
a. est
b. fuit
c. erat
d. fuerat.
Had been is the pluperfect tense, which is formed off of the 3rd principal part, remove i,
and add eram, eras, erat.
___C_____v. The slaves, whom Salvius had killed, were very old and sick.
a. quī
b. quem
c. quōs
d. quibus
Relative pronouns get gender and number from antecedent but case from their use in their
own clause. Slaves are masculine plural, but they are the direct object of the second
sentence.
__B vi. After the mother heard the crying baby, she gave money to him
a. is
b. eī
c. eum
d. eō
To him is the indirect object- the baby is receiving the money. You need a dative.
____C____vii. The father of this girl is Aristo.
a. haec
b. huic
c. huius
Of this girl is feminine, singular, genitive
________viii. Vilbia ___________ Modestī audivit et iratissima erat.
Ignore this question!
d. hanc
__C______ix. ubi Quintus ad villam advenīt, servī ______ ad atrium duxit.
a. is
b. eās
c. eum
d. eōs
Quintus is the direct object of the second sentence, and needs to be masc, sing, acc.
____C____x. ii. Rufilla in urbe ______________ habitāre vult.
a. pulchram
b. pulchrō
c. pulchrā
d. pulcher
Beautiful modifies city, which is feminine, singular, ablative
_A____
xi.
difficile erat mihi _____ tot resistere.
a. operīs
b. operārum
c. operae
d. operas
Resisto is a dative taking verb, and the tot (so many) indicates you need dat. plural
__C__ xii. “discipulī!” inquit Magistra, “nolīte ____________!”
a. pugnāte
b. pugnans
c. pugnāre
d. pugnā
Negative commands are nolī (don’t!) or nolite (don’t, ya’ll) and are followed by an
infinitive
__C___
xiii.
Quīntus lībertō, prope fontem _____ , appropinquāvit.
a. stans
b. stantis
c. stantī
d. stantem
Standing modifies the freedman, who is masculine, singular, dative (object of special verb
appropinquo)
__B___xiv. The slave girl, whom Rufilla was calling, was working in the kitchen.
a. quae
b. quam
c. quī
d. quem
Slave girl is feminine and singular but the direct object of the embedded sentence, so you
need accusative
__B___
xv.
nemo est ______________ quam Helena.
a. pulchra
b. pulchrior
c. pulcherrima
The quam (than) indicatives you need a comparative. Nemo is singular
d. pulchriorēs
___B__xvi.
in ____ culinā Grumio cenam coquere solēbat.
a. hic
b. hāc
c. hoc
d. hōc
Culina is feminine, singular, ablative
___C____xvi. nōn decorum est _____________ cubiculum parāre.
a. ornatrix
b. ornatricis
c. ornatricī
d. ornatricem
After an impersonal verb phrase you need a dative, and ornatrix is 3rd decelension
___D____xviii. mercator Arabs erat in desertīs, sine ____________.
a. aqua
b. aquae
c. aquam
d. aqua
Sine is a SID SPACE preposition and requires an ablative.
__A_____xix. prope __________ erat rogus, in quō effigies Claudiī erat.
a. mare
b. maris
c. marī
d. maria
Prope takes the accusative, and mare is a neuter word so the nominative and the
accusative are the same. Based on story context, accusative singular works better than
accusative plural (d)
____B___xx.
tu ad Britanniam iter facere ________________.
a. nolō
b. nōn vīs
c. nolumus
d. nōn vultis
This is a simple subject-verb agreement question. The subject is tu (you,
singular),so you need a second person singular verb!