Key for the first midterm

Here is the key for the first midterm.

On the whole the marks were good: 2 A+, 3 A+/A, 1 A, 1 B, 3 B-, 1 D/D+, 1 F.

Those students that did not get an A grade all showed continued weakness with basic morphology and grammar. This was particularly notable in the questions. If you didn't know that a gerund is a noun and that they are neuter and decline like second declension nouns, you are in trouble. If you didn't know that bibentibus is a present active participle, as well as being masculine dat. pl., your basics are weak. If you thought solius was nom., when there was no nom. it could be modifying, you need to do lots of review. Similarly, in the translations there were too many instances of someone simply not paying any attention to case endings that go back to early in first-year Latin and so translating accusatives as subjects, nominatives as objects, plurals as singular etc.

By the next midterm you will have two more months of the course behind you and my standards and the difficulty of at least some of the material on the exam will increase.