Owens Latin 1 Test 3 Study Checklist
VOCABULARY
 For the vocabulary and etymology sections, study the words introduced since the last test. A list of these
words have been posted on the class webpage.
 Review previously learned vocabulary for the other sections of the test.
NOUNS
 Be able to decline a neuter second declension noun and be able to translate a neuter noun in the context
of a sentence.
 Be able to recognize and translate the vocative case.
 Know the exceptions to vocative case formation (“-us” nouns have a vocative singular in “–e.” “-ius”
nouns have a vocative singular in “–i.")
 Review previously learned noun forms.
ADJECTIVES
 Know how adjectives decline.
 Know the adjective golden rule (agrees with its noun in gender, number and case BUT not necessarily in
ending).
 Be able to make a noun agree with a noun and be able to translate in the context of a sentence.
 The same rule that pertains to vocative nouns applies to masculine adjectives.
VERBS
 Be able to conjugate the verb sum, esse, fui, futurus in the present tense.
 Review previously learned verb forms (present tense of 1st and 2nd conjugations) and the formation of
the imperative
SYNTAX
 Know what apposition is and be able to translate in context.
 Review what a predicate nominative is and be able to translate in context.
READINGS
 Review the Pandora passage as well as the Romulus and Remus passages. Be able to answer syntax
questions based on these.
CULTURE
 Myth of Pandora: who was she (first woman), what did she do (open the box, let evils out), to whom
was she given (Epimetheus) and who tried to warn him (Prometheus).
 Early lives of Romulus and Remus: Where were they born (Alba Longa), who was their mother (Rhea
Silvia), political conflicts that led to their attempted murder (Numitor Vs. Amulius), and who helped
them (she-wolf, Faustulus).