VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
LATIN PLACEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE
Name:
email:
year you will be this fall (freshman, sophomore, etc.):
At which school(s) and with which teacher(s) did you study Latin?
How many years of Latin have you had?
 middle school/junior high school:
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high school:
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did you take AP or IB (international baccalaureate):
Which textbook(s) did you use?
(e.g., Latin for Americans, Ecce Romani, Cambridge series, Oxford series, Wheelock’s Latin,
Moreland & Fleischer’s Latin: An Intensive Course, Keller & Russell’s Learn to Read Latin)
Did you memorize vocabulary?
Were you expected to know vocabulary on quizzes/exams
or were you given a dictionary or vocabulary list?
Did you memorize morphology? (i.e., endings of nouns, verbs, etc.)
generate Latin forms?
Were you asked to
Did you learn grammatical constructions? (i.e., uses of the ablative case, uses of the subjunctive
mood, etc.)
Were you asked to explain grammatical constructions in a Latin sentence or
passage?
Did you translate Latin into English?
seen before?
Were you tested on translating passages you hadn’t
In addition to sentences or passages in a textbook, did you translate real Latin authors/texts into
English? If so, which ones?
Did you translate English into Latin?
What assessments factored into your Latin grades? (i.e., homework, quizzes, exams, projects)