UNIT 5 PRACTICE TEST

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UNIT 5 PRACTICE TEST

• Write the letter of the answer YOU think is
  correct on your marker board and hold it up in
  front of you.
• Keep a tally down at the bottom of your board of
  how many you get wrong.

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• 1. Which of the following sentences does NOT
  contain a pronoun?
• A. The great Greek and Latin poets created myths.
• B. Homer was the first Greek poet who created the
  myths.
• C. His stories were retold or invented by the
  Latin poet Ovid.
• D. He put these myths into a collection called
  Metamorphoses.

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Read the following sentences then answer
questions 2 and 3.Ovid probably influenced
Western literature than any other ancient writer.
Writers like Chaucer and Shakespeare show traces
of him in their work.

• 2. Which of the following is the antecedent of
  the pronoun him?
• A. Ovid
• B. Writers
• C. Chaucer
• D. Shakespeare

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Read the following sentences then answer
questions 2 and 3.Ovid probably influenced
Western literature than any other ancient writer.
Writers like Chaucer and Shakespeare show traces
of him in their work.

• 3. Which of the following is the antecedent of
  the pronoun their?
• A. Ovid
• B. Writers
• C. Chaucer
• D. Shakespeare

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• 4. Which of the following sentences is written
  correctly?
• A. Me love to read about mythology.
• B. The stories of the gods is fascinating to I.
• C. Me and my sister enjoy writing our own myths.
• D. My sister said she is ready to write more.

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• 5. Which of the following sentences is written
  correctly?
• A. The Titans were the first gods of us universe.
• B. The Titan Cronus was dethroned by their son,
  Zeus.
• C. Zeus became the ruler of all the gods and
  ruled from his throne on Mount Olympus.
• D. The Titans were punished or forced into exile
  by Zeus and her brothers.

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• 6. Which of the following sentences is written
  correctly?
• A. Zeus and his brothers, Poseidon and Hades, are
  the three major gods.
• B. Zeus sisters and some of her children make up
  the other important gods.
• C. There are many minor gods, and many stories
  have been told about him.
• D. Her stories also included many other
  characters and regular people.

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• 7. Which of the following sentences is written
  correctly?
• A. I enjoys reading myths like The Golden
  Touch.
• B. It are about a greedy man named King Midas.
• C. Dionysus grants him a wish, and he wishes to
  be able to turn things to gold with one touch.
• D. In the end, he ask for the gift to be taken
  back.

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• 8. Which of the following sentences is written
  correctly?
• A. The Weaving Contest is another Greek myth I
  likes.
• B. It is about a peasant who could weave better
  than the goddess of weaving herself.
• C. She challenge the goddess Athena to a weaving
  contest.
• D. Athena loses, so she turn the peasant Arachne
  into the first spider.

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• 9. Which of the following sentences is written
  correctly?
• A. Theyre many words in our language that are
  derived from Greek.
• B. Its surprising to learn that cereal comes from
  Ceres, the goddess of grain.
• C. Your also smart if you knew morphine comes
  from Morpheus, god of dreams.
• D. Whos ever been called a narcissist? That
  comes from Narcissus, who fell in love with his
  own reflection.

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• 10. Which of the following sentences is written
  correctly?
• A. Your parents probably never told you where the
  name Olympics comes from.
• B. It comes from Mount Olympus. Its the home of
  the major gods and goddesses.
• C. Whos parents told them why we call
  rainbow-like displays of colors iridescent?
• D. Their called that because of the goddess Iris,
  the goddess of the rainbow.

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• 11. Which of the following sentences does NOT
  contain an indefinite pronoun?
• A. Everyone loves to read stories.
• B. My teacher made me write my own myth one time.
• C. I didnt tell anyone, but I really enjoyed
  writing it.
• D. Each of us had to tell a creation story.

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• 12. Which of the following sentences is written
  correctly?
• A. Many tells how something came to be.
• B. One were about why cats purr.
• C. None tell why cats were made.
• D. Someone write about how the turtle got its
  shell.

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• 13. Which of the following sentences uses a
  demonstrative pronoun?
• A. This Greek myth uses a story of the gods to
  explain the seasons.
• B. Hades kidnapped Demeters daughter and wanted
  to marry her.
• C. Because Demeter was the goddess of grain,
  nothing in the land grew until this daughter
  returned to her.
• D. That was the beginning of winter.

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• 14. Which of the following sentences uses a
  demonstrative pronoun?
• A. Hades wanted to keep Persephone, Demeters
  daughter, with him in the underworld.
• B. Persephone wanted to leave that place, so
  Hades finally agreed.
• C. However, he made her eat a pomegranate before
  she left.
• D. This meant that she had to return every six
  months to live in the underworld with Hades, and
  that causes the change in the seasons.

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• 15. Which of the following sentences uses a
  reflexive pronoun correctly?
• A. The Greeks even have a myth about a nymph
  named Echo, which explains the sound of the echo.
• B. Echo angered Hera, Zeus wife, and so Hera
  cursed Echo to only repeat the last lines of what
  she themself hears.
• C. Echo falls in love with a boy named Narcissus,
  who was only in love with himself.
• D. After Narcissus felt hisself dying, Echo faded
  away from grief until only her voice was left.

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• 16. Which of the following sentences uses an
  interrogative pronoun INCORRECTLY?
• A. Who has heard of the Cyclops who tends a flock
  of sheep?
• B. Do you know whom killed the Minotaur?
• C. What Harry Potter book had the basilisk in it?
• D. Which creature would you rather ride, a
  Hippogriff or a Pegasus?

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• 17. Which of the following sentences uses an
  interrogative pronoun INCORRECTLY?
• A. Whose son was it that becomes Cupid?
• B. Who was the Greek god of the sea?
• C. Do you know to who Perseus gives the shield?
• D. Whom do you ask for when you need to send a
  message?

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• 18. Which of the following sentences uses a
  relative pronoun correctly?
• A. Athene is the goddess who turns Medusas hair
  into snakes.
• B. A Hippocampus is a huge creature which pulls
  the chariot of Poseidon.
• C. Daedalus is the man whom created Minoss
  labyrinth.
• D. Centaurs are famous mythological creatures,
  that are half-human and half-horse.

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• 19. Which of the following sentences uses a
  relative pronoun correctly?
• A. Satyrs are woodland creatures whom are human
  down to the waist.
• B. It looks much different from their bottom
  half, that is made up of hairy legs and hooves.
• C. The god who they follow is called Pan he
  plays pipes.
• D. Satyrs are gentile creatures that are also
  called fauns.

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• 20. Which of the following sentences uses a
  relative pronoun INCORRECTLY?
• A. Whoever heard of the hero Hercules?
• B. Hercules is the half-mortal son of Zeus whom
  killed many monsters.
• C. Alcyoneus was a Gigante whom Hercules killed.
• D. Hercules impressed whomever he met with his
  tales of heroism.