Free Practice Questions for Valencian Community PAU Latin II

The official PAU exam is a 90-minute written examination consisting of a Latin prose text for translation (typically selected from Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, or Nepos) accompanied by morphological parsing, syntactic analysis, literary commentary, and Romance etymology questions.

While the official PAU examination requires written translation and grammatical parsing in Spanish or Valencian, this 100-question practice bank provides an accessible, English-language multiple-choice study adaptation to reinforce knowledge of Latin grammar, syntax rules, translation patterns, Roman literature, and etymology.

Prose translation primarily draws from classical authors such as Julius Caesar (De Bello Gallico), Marcus Tullius Cicero (In Catilinam, Pro Archia), Sallust (Bellum Catilinae), and Cornelius Nepos. The literary history domain covers major figures including Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Livy, Tacitus, Plautus, Terence, and Seneca.

The exam is marked on a scale of 0 to 10 points. If taken in the compulsory Access Phase, a score of at least 4.0 is required to calculate the admission average (60% Bachillerato GPA + 40% PAU Access Phase >= 5.0). It can also be taken in the voluntary phase to boost university admission scores by up to 2 additional points.

The etymology domain assesses key sound changes from Latin to Spanish and Valencian, including diphthongization of short stressed vowels (e/o), apocope of final unstressed vowels, syncope of internal weak vowels, voicing of intervocalic voiceless stops (p/t/k > b/d/g), and palatalization of consonant clusters.