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FRQ 1 – Short Answer (Vergil or Pliny)
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Practice FRQ 1 of 261/26
1. Answer the following questions in English unless the question specifically asks you to provide Latin words. Base your answers on the passage below.
Source: Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 7.27.6-7
Per silentium noctis sonus ferri, et si attenderes
acrius, strepitus vinculorum longius primo, deinde e proximo
reddebatur: mox apparebat idolon, senex macie et squalore
confectus, promissa barba, horrenti capillo;
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cruribus compedes, manibus catenas gerebat quatiebatque.
Inde inhabitantibus tristes diraeque noctes per metum vigilabantur;
vigiliam morbus et crescente formidine mors sequebatur.
ferrum, -i, n.: iron
strepitus, -us, m.: noise, clanking
vinculum, -i, n.: chain, bond
reddo, -ere: to give back, produce
idolon, n.: apparition, ghost
macies, -ei, f.: thinness, emaciation
squalor, -oris, m.: filth, roughness
promissus, -a, -um, adj.: long, hanging down
compes, compedis, f.: shackle, fetter
catena, -ae, f.: chain
quatio, -ere: to shake
formido, -inis, f.: fear, terror
A. (i) Translate in context the phrase senex macie et squalore confectus (lines 3–4).
(ii) Identify the case of senex.
B. Identify the contextual meaning of attenderes (line 1).
C. Identify what the ghost carried on its hands (manibus, line 5).
D. Identify the antecedent of the pronoun implied by inhabitantibus (line 6).
E. Identify the grammatical construction of crescente formidine (line 7).
F. Identify what ultimately followed vigiliam (line 7) according to the passage.
G. Identify the philosopher who, according to the required reading, agreed to stay in the haunted house and investigated the ghost.
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