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Descriptive Statements:
- Identify the stated main idea of a passage.
- Identify significant supporting details in a passage.
- Determine the sequence of events in a passage.
Sample Item:
Read the passage below; then answer the five questions that follow.
Vertitur intereā caelum et ruit Ōceanō nox 250
involvēns umbrā magnā terramque polumque
Myrmidonumque dolōs; fūsī per moenia Teucrī
conticuēre; sopor fessōs complectitur artūs.
et iam Argīva phalānx īnstrūctīs nāvibus ībat 255
ā Tenedō tacitae per amīca silentia lūnae
lītora nōta petēns, flammās cum rēgia puppis
extulerat, fātīsque deum dēfēnsus inīquīs
inclūsōs uterō Danaōs et pīnea fūrtim
laxat claustra Sinōn. 260
(Vergil, Aeneid II 2 .250– to 260)
Which of the following best describes the main idea of lines 250– to 251 (Vertitur intereā caelum et ruit Ōceanō nox involvēns umbrā magnā terramque polumque)?
- The sun has risen.
- The weather is unpredictable.
- The day has ended.
- The ocean is mysterious.
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C.
What happens before Sinon lets the hidden Greeks out of the horse?
- He slaughters the Trojans along the ramparts.
- He sneaks past the Danaan hiding place.
- He deceives the Myrmidons in the darkness.
- He receives a signal from the royal ship of the Greeks
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D.
Descriptive Statements:
- Predict outcomes or events based on information in a passage.
- Draw conclusions based on information in a passage.
- Interpret a mood or attitude in a passage.
- Analyze an author's point of view in a passage.
- Infer the theme, purpose, or intended audience of a passage.
Sample Item:
The phrase sopor fessōs complectitur artūs (line 254) foreshadows which of the following?
- Troy will be defenseless when the Greeks attack.
- The Greeks will grow weary of war.
- Trojan skill will help them battle their adversaries.
- The Greeks will adopt Trojan arts.
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A.
Descriptive Statements:
- Select the correct English translation of a phrase, sentence, or short passage of prose or poetry.
- Select an accurate English summary of a phrase, sentence, or short passage of prose or poetry.
Sample Item:
Lines 255– to 257 (et iam Argīva phalānx īnstrūctīs nāvibus ībat ā Tenedō tacitae per amīca silentia lūnae lītora nōta petēns) describe which of the following?
- the movement of the stars
- instructions given to the Greek army
- the approach of the Greek fleet
- lights and colors visible on shore
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C.
Descriptive Statements:
- Analyze the effect of word order or word choice in a passage.
- Identify or analyze the effect of a figure of speech, stylistic feature, or rhetorical device (e.g., anaphora, chiasmus) in a passage.
- Interpret an image or metaphor in a passage.
- Apply the basic rules of scansion to lines of poetry.
- Identify the following meters in lines of poetry: dactylic hexameter, elegiac couplet, hendecasyllabic, Sapphic.
- Identify metrical elements (e.g., trochee, spondee, dactyl) in lines of poetry.
Sample Item:
The first four feet of line 255 are scanned:
- spondee dactyl spondee spondee.
- dactyl dactyl spondee spondee.
- spondee dactyl dactyl spondee.
- dactyl spondee dactyl spondee.
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A.
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