Quiz

1. What is the scansion of line 117?
   “ille etiam liquidis palmas ubi laverat undis”
   a. DSSD
   b. DSDS
   c. DSSS
   d. DSDD
   
   

2. What is the form of decerpsit (line 112)?
   a. Third-person singular perfect active indicative
   b. Third-person singular present passive subjunctive
   c. Third-person singular future active indicative
   d. Third-person singular pluperfect active indicative
   
   

3. What is the form of vertatur (line 103)?
   a.  Third-person singular future passive indicative
   b. Third-person singular perfect passive subjunctive
   c. Third-person singular imperfect passive indicative
   d.Third-person singular present passive subjunctive
   
   

4. What is the correct translation of line 102:
   “effice, quicquid corpore contigero, fulvum vertatur in aurum”?
   a. "Grant that whatever I have touched with my body might become pale like gold."
   b. "Make whatever I touch with my body be turned into gold."
   c. "He wished that everything he touched with his body became as hard as gold."
   d. "Make whatever my body touches be transformed into molten gold."
   
   

5. What is the correct translation of lines 90–92:
   “titubantem annisque meroque ruricolae cepere Phryges vinctumque coronis ad regem duxere Midan”?
   a. “The drunken Phrygian villagers, trembling with age and wine, were captured and crowned by Silenus before being brought to Midas.”
   b. “Staggering from age and wine, the Phrygian rustics captured him and, crowning him with garlands, led him to King Midas.”
   c. “The countryside of Phrygia faltered with age and wine as Silenus was bound in garlands and brought to King Midas.”
   d. “Trembling from age and wine, Midas was crowned by the Phrygians and brought to the forest king.”
   
   

6. What is the object of contigero in line 103?
   a. Corpore
   b. Effice
   c. Quidquid
   d. Aurum
   
   

7. What kind of subjunctive clause is found in line 103 (vertatur)?
   a. Indirect command
   b. Purpose clause
   c. Fear clause
   d. Result clause
   
   

8. In what manner are the gods referred to within this passage?
   a. Midas gifts these Gods his gold
   b. The Gods are infuriated that Midas has more gold than them
   c. Midas’s golden creations are compared to those of the gods
   d. Midas makes his golden creations in the likeness of the gods’ physiques
   
   

9. What poetic device is used in line 118:

“vix spes ipse suas animo capit aurea fingens omnia”

a. Synchysis

b. Litotes

c. Metonymy

d. Hyperbole

10. What poetic device is used in line 110:

“tollit humo saxum: saxum quoque palluit auro”?

a. Hyperbaton

b. Personification

c. Chiasmus

d. Enjambment

Answer Key

1. b

2. a

3. d

4. b

5. b

6. c

7. a

8. c

9. d

10. b

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