What do the present, imperfect and future tenses have in common?
a. The personal endings are the same in all the tenses.
b. The first person always ends in -o.
c. The verb stem is the same regardless of the tense.
d. They all can describe a simple action.
Question 2
What is the tense sign for the imperfect tense?
a. -ba-.
b. -b-.
c. The same as the stem vowel.
d. -bo, -bis, -bit, -bimus, -bitis, -bunt.
e. It depends upon the conjugation.
Question 3
What is new about the formation of the imperfect and future tenses?
a. They both require a tense sign.
b. They change the stem vowel of the verb.
c. The personal endings are different from the personal endings of the present.
d. They have "continuous" or "progressive" meanings.
e. Nothing; the rules and the elements remain the same.
Question 4
What is the correct translation of "the beautiful poet"?
a. pulcherus poeta.
b. pulchra poeta.
c. pulcher poeta.
d. pulchrus poeta.
Question 5
What is the correct translation of "for a free people"?
a. populus liber.
b. libero populo.
c. libris populis.
d. populo libro.
e. populi liber.
Question 6
What is unique (so far in your experience) about the endings of the future in the first and second conjugations?
a. The first person ends in -m.
b. They require a tense sign.
c. They are not added to the stem.
d. They include a short vowel which changes form depending on the personal ending.
e. They all use -b-.
Question 7
Latin Sentence: Mali liberos culpant. Which of the following translations is most accurate?
a. The evil man blames his children.
b. Wicked people are free from guilt.
c. The wicked censure the free.
d. They are blaming the nasty free men.
Question 8
Which of the following is incorrect?
a. I will have = habo.
b. I am eating = ceno.
c. I was dining = cenabam.
d. They will blame = culpabunt.
e. They were loving = amabant..
Question 9
Which of the following is incorrect?
a. liberi = free men.
b. culpa = blame!
c. for beautiful women = pulcheris feminis.
d. the free sailors = liberi nautae.
e. the good = bonum.
Question 10
Which is the correct translation of "We will always love you, o fatherland."
a. O patriam, te semper amabimus.
b. Semper te, o patria, amabimus.
c. Satis amabitis te, o patria.
d. Patriam semper amabamus.
e. Patriam semper amabimus.