National Latin Exam (NLE) case studies
National Latin Exam (NLE) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The National Latin Exam (NLE) is a Latin assessment administered under the ACL/NJCL National Latin Exam name, with its office located at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It is intended for Latin students and teachers, and the official site also provides dedicated guidance for homeschooled students and for college students. The National Latin Exam (NLE) case studies are 5 cases and about 2,835 words.
1Two ut-Clauses in a Night March
While working through a practice passage set at the end of a third-year course, a student meets this sentence in a night-march narrative: Tantus terror milites cepit ut portas relinquerent, quamquam dux signum dare non destitit. Two sentences later the same writer says: Milites tamen, postquam extra vallum constiterunt, signa reliquerunt ut celerius fugerent.
613 words, about 3 min2Three Ways to Read latus
A student compiling derivative lists from a passage about a river crossing meets three forms that the glossary files under one headword: (1) Flumen erat latum et altum, neque milites id transire poterant. (2) Onera militum a servis lata sunt ad ripam.
555 words, about 3 min3Reading a Lararium Without a Label
Preparing a short report on household religion, a student works from a published text description of a shrine niche in a house at Pompeii. The description reads: at the center stands a mature, veiled figure in a toga, holding a patera in the right hand and a cornucopia in the left; on either side are two smaller youthful figures in short tunics, each stepping forward with one arm raised, holding a drinking horn in one hand and a patera in the other.
579 words, about 3 min4Two qui-Clauses in One Report
An original passage in a reading-comprehension exercise reads: Legati, qui ad Caesarem missi erant, ubi in castra venerunt, pacem petierunt. Quibus auditis Caesar respondit se alios legatos, qui condiciones referrent, statim missurum.
554 words, about 3 min5An Inscription That Argues With Its Reader
A student writing a source-analysis essay is given this fictional honorary inscription from a colonia: Q. CUR., PR., COS., PATRONO COLONIAE The essay makes three claims: (a) because Severus held the tribunate of the plebs, he was a plebeian, and his consulship therefore shows the stone was cut before 367 BC; (b) because COS.
534 words, about 3 min