Praxis Latin Practice Test
Praxis Latin (5601) practice focuses on reading Latin forms and syntax, including verb conjugation, noun cases, adjective comparison, adverbs, and common idioms. Sample items ask you to identify forms such as a perfect active verb or a genitive singular noun, then interpret how a word functions within a phrase or sentence.
Exam overview
About the Praxis Latin Exam
Latin analysis requires connecting morphology to meaning: principal parts help identify a verb’s tense and voice, while endings distinguish case, number, and grammatical role. Practice interpreting prepositions with their cases, recognizing irregular verbs, and distinguishing objects from other sentence functions. You may also encounter idiomatic expressions whose meaning cannot be derived by translating each word separately. These skills support accurate translation and close reading of Latin sentences. When reviewing a missed item, identify the decisive cue—such as a case ending, verb stem, agreement pattern, or idiom—and explain how it shapes the translation rather than memorizing an isolated answer.
Sample Practice Questions
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Which Latin word is an adverb meaning “therefore” or “for that reason”?
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Correct answer: AIgitur is a connective adverb commonly meaning “therefore,” “consequently,” or “then.” Numquam means “never,” fortasse “perhaps,” and statim “immediately.”
Which form is the third-person plural perfect active indicative of mittō, mittere, mīsī, missum (send)?
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Correct answer: CThe perfect stem is mīs-. The third-person plural perfect active ending is -ērunt, giving mīserunt, “they sent.”
Which form is the genitive singular of the third-declension noun rēx, rēgis (king)?
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Correct answer: CThe genitive singular of rēx, rēgis is rēgis. The genitive identifies possession or association and is commonly listed as the second principal form of a noun.
In the sentence Puer librō dat, what is the grammatical function of librō?
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Correct answer: DLibrō is the ablative singular of liber, “book.” With dat (“gives”), it indicates the means or thing given: “The boy gives [something] with/by means of a book.” The sentence is grammatically possible but leaves the direct object understood from context.
What is the usual meaning of the idiom mihi placet?
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Correct answer: APlaceō is used with a dative person to express who finds something pleasing. Mihi is the dative “to me,” so mihi placet means “it pleases me,” commonly translated “I like it.”
Which statement best describes the principal parts of a Latin verb?
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Correct answer: APrincipal parts provide key forms from which the verb’s present stem, perfect stem, and supine stem can generally be identified. Those stems are used to form many other parts of the verb’s paradigm.
In the phrase ad urbem, what case is urbem, and what does the preposition ad commonly express here?
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Correct answer: AAd takes the accusative and commonly expresses motion toward a place. Ad urbem means “to” or “toward the city.”
How to use this practice test
US Practice Tests offers free Praxis Latin practice questions drawn from its question bank. A session presents up to 20 randomly selected questions and shows results afterward. Use the results to spot recurring errors in forms or syntax, then revisit those specific patterns before another session.
Preparation tips
- Write out the principal parts of verbs you miss, then derive the requested person, number, tense, voice, and mood from the correct stem.
- For noun-form questions, identify the declension and compare the ending with the requested case and number before assigning a sentence function.
- Parse prepositional phrases by checking the preposition’s required case and the meaning that case gives the phrase.
- Keep a short list of idioms such as mihi placet and record their natural English meaning alongside a literal gloss.
- For adjective-comparison questions, form the comparative and check that its ending agrees with the noun it modifies.