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Lines 1.15-1.26
Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Two 1.15-26
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Bonus: Spell AQUEDUCT
9. We heard earlier that Bellerophon rode on Pegasus to kill the Chimera. What did the Chimera look like? Head of a lion, body of a goat, tail of a serpent/dragon.
Bonus: Describe the hybrid sphinx that terrorized the Thebans until Oedipus caused her death. Human head, body of a lion (possibly with wings).
10. What mood is used when action is seen as hypothetical, potential, or unreal? Subjunctive
Bonus: Name the tenses of the subjunctive. Present, imperfect, perfect, pluperfect
11. Name one of the two possible uses of the subjunctive in the following sentence: Let us encourage one another to answer quickly. Hortatory or indirect command.
Bonus: Name the other.
12. Which emperor spent a number of years of his step-father's reign on the island of Rhodes because of disaffection? After he had been emperor for a number of years, he chose a voluntary exile on the island of Capri. Tiberius.
Bonus: Who succeeded Tiberius? Caligula/Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus.
13. Give the present active imperatives (singular and plural) of fero . f er, ferte.
Bonus: Give the four principal parts of that verb. fero, ferre, tuli, latum .
14. Who am I? I was the king of Mycenae and was living contentedly until I had to go off to war. That was the beginning of my troubles. When I tried to set sail from Aulis, Artemis who was angry at me for a rash boast, would not let the wind stop blowing. She required the sacrifice of my daughter before she would let us sail. I agreed. After ten years at Troy, I finally got my brother's wife back for him, but when I returned home, I was killed by my own wife. Agamemnon.