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1. What does the adjective "doctior" in line 168 modify?

      a) sparsōs capillos

      b) duae in the previous sentence

      c) Ismenis Crocale

      d) illīs

    2. What is the case and case use of additus in line 198?

          a) genitive, possesion (4th declension)

          b) nominative, subject

          c) it is a verb

          d) nominative, predicate complement

    3. Parse superēminet

    4. What is the poetic device in the last line of the poem: 

         an lateat silvīs? pudor hoc, timor inpedit illud.

          a) Enjambment

          b) Synchesis

          c) Early Caesura (to put emphasis on his second option)

          d) Rhetorical question

        

    5. What does the pronoun "is" in line 185 refer to.

          a) color

          b) purpureae Aurorae

          c) īnfectīs nubibus

          d) adversī sōlis

    6. What does the ut in line 200 trigger?

          a) Result clause

          b) Purpose clause

          c) Indicative clause (translates as as)

          d) Future active periphrastic

    7. Parse nārrēs

    8. What is the case and case use of "illis" in line 168 (Macrons purposely not included)?

          a) genitive, possession

          b) ablative, means

          c) ablative, respect

          d) ablative, comparison

    9. What part of speech is "vivacis" in line 194?

          a) noun-ablative

          b) adjective

          c) verb

          d) noun-genitive

    10. Scan line 200 and write down one interesting thing about it

    11. What is the case and case use of "cladis" in line 191?

          a) ablative, ablative absolute with verba

          b) genitive, objective

          c) genitive, possession

          d) ablative, means

    12. What is the direct object of the verb vīsō in line 178?

          a) Dianam

          b) nūdae nymphae

          c) Phillip, you dumbass, it is in an ablative absolute with virō

          d) omne nemus

    13. Why does Actaeon see Diana bathing?

          a) He was hunting

          b) He wanted to

          c) It was by chance

          d) It was the will of the Gods

    14. Why is Diana compared to the sky in lines 183-184?

          a) She lives in the sky (Mount Olympus)

          b) Her face turns red like the color of clouds lit by the sun

          c) The water she throws at Actaeon is blue like the sky

          d) Her clothes bear a cloud like resemblance

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    Answer Key

    1. c
    2. d
    3. 3rd person, Singular, Present, Active, Indicative
    4. b
    5. a
    6. c
    7. 2nd person, Singular, Present, Active, Subjunctive
    8. d
    9. b
    10. SSSDDS. There are three spondees at the start of the line, which accentuate the moment Actaeon realizes he is a deer.
    11. b
    12. c
    13. c
    14. b

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